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Science 2 September 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5740, pp. 1499 - 1501
DOI: 10.1126/science.1113863
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Perspectives

GENOMICS:
Thoughts on the Future of Great Ape Research

Edwin H. McConkey and Ajit Varki

In their Perspective, McConkey and Varki discuss the sequencing of the chimp genome, reported this week in the journal Nature. Although it is a notable accomplishment, it only marks the end of the beginning. The hard work of understanding how the genome generates the chimp phenome is still ahead of us, as is clarification of the precise differences between chimps and humans.

E. H. McConkey is in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. E-mail: mcconkey{at}colorado.edu A. Varki is in the Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92039, USA. E-mail: a1varki{at}ucsd.edu

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