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Science 5 February 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5403, p. 767
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5403.767a
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GENOME SEQUENCING:
Fruit Fly Researchers Sign Pact With Celera

Elizabeth Pennisi

Aided by a huge investment from equipment manufacturer Perkin-Elmer of Norwalk, Connecticut, private entrepreneurs and academics have agreed on a joint plan to sequence the DNA of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and a timetable for making the sequence public. It could soon become the most complex organism completed; yet the partnership aims to finish in record time--by December 1999. The project could also pave the way for a similar collaboration to sequence the human genome.

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