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Science 20 October 1995:
Vol. 270. no. 5235, p. 445
DOI: 10.1126/science.270.5235.445
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Perspectives

André Goffeau

The author is at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Unité de Biochimie Physiologique, Place Croix du Sud, 2-20, B 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. A. Goffeau discusses the implications of the sequencing of the second complete genome--that of the small parasite Mycoplasma genitalium--by C. Fraser et al., reported in this issue of Science. This technically impressive achievement now allows identification of minimal sets of genes necessary for various biological functions and comparisons to other complete genome sequences.

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