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Science 8 March 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5561, p. 1817
DOI: 10.1126/science.295.5561.1817b
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GENOMICS:
Taking Aim at Celera's Shotgun

Jennifer Couzin

In a paper published in the 5 March online Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, three leaders of the publicly funded Human Genome Project assert that what appeared to be a dead-heat race to sequence the genome was actually nothing of the sort. Celera Genomics, the authors argue, broke down information from the public database into patterns that were easy to reassemble. The company's public relations machine then sold the effort as a triumph of the whole-genome shotgun approach, the authors add, making it appear different from the public frame-by-frame reading.

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