Pssssst. Wanna check out Venter’s genome?
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ScienceNOW and ScienceDaily are reporting the announcement of the 1000 Genomes Project, which will be supported by agencies in the UK, China, the US, and elsewhere. It will include analyses of the genomes of 1000 individual humans, and will build upon the International HapMap Project. ScienceDaily describes the early phases of the project: [...] The most recent issue of Genome Research contains a report of the cat genome sequence (Pontius et al. 2007), adding Felis catus to the rapidly growing collection of animal genome sequences. One of the reasons that the number of mammal sequences is increasing so quickly is that there have been reduced standards for sequence [...] There is a story on Science News Online entitled “Genome 2.0“. The author has certainly done a lot of legwork and has tried to present a detailed discussion of a complex topic, and for that he deserves considerable credit. (He clearly hasn’t taken my guide to heart). That said, it is unfortunate that the [...] The first diploid human genome sequence, and the first truly complete sequence from a single individual — notably but perhaps not surprisingly Dr. J. Craig Venter — is now available. The paper describing Dr. Venter’s genome (which has been labeled “HuRef”) is published in the open access journal PLoS Biology, so feel free to [...] It is commonly suggested by anti-evolutionists that recent discoveries of function in non-coding DNA support intelligent design and refute “Darwinism”. This misrepresents both the history and the science of this issue. I would like to provide some clarification of both aspects. When people began estimating genome sizes (amounts of DNA per genome) in the [...] The results of the proof-of-principle phase of ENCODE, the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Project, appear in the June 14 issue of Nature. It’s a very interesting project, and it has revealed a few more surprises (or at least, added evidence in favour of previously surprising observations). I will probably post more about it soon, [...] To date, two identified human beings have had their genomes sequenced: J. Craig Venter and James D. Watson. Venter’s was completed in draft form in 2001 and the final version was completed recently. Watson received his genome sequence on disk (a hard drive, not a DVD as reported) from Jonathan Rothberg, founder of 454 [...] In 2001, when the draft sequences were announced, it was revealed that the human genome contains somewhere between 30,000 and 35,000 protein-coding genes (International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium 2001; Venter et al. 2001). The completed sequence, published in 2004, provided an even lower estimate of 20,000 to 25,000 genes (International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium [...] The genome sequence of the gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica, was published in today’s issue of Nature (Mikkelsen et al. 2007). It is interesting for many reasons, including its status as the first marsupial genome to be sequenced, its relatively large genome size, and low chromosome number (2n = 18). It is also interesting [...] |
T. Ryan Gregory 
I am an evolutionary biologist specializing in genome size evolution at the University of Guelph in Canada.
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