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Science 29 September 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5795, p. 1892
DOI: 10.1126/science.1134998

Books

GENOMICS:
An Ointment for the Fly

J. Craig Venter


Won for All
How the Drosophila Genome Was Sequenced
by Michael Ashburner
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2006. 123 pp. $19.95, £11. ISBN 0-87969-802-0.
The author offers a short, lively account (almost resembling diary extracts) of the collaborative effort that sequenced the Drosophila genome.
The reviewer is at the J. Craig Venter Institute, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. E-mail: jcventer{at}venterinstitute.org

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