By late 1997 it was possible for the agency to decide that, although there had until then been only some limited sequencing of individual genes, the state's laboratories were ready to jump into a huge project and sequence a complete organism.

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Further more exome sequencing is a questionable working model as companies will now be able to sequence a complete genome at a lower cost than one utilizing array exome capture and potential bias, why a company would offer that as the preferred service is odd.

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Besides lighting a fire under the public side of the project, this technique enabled Dr Venter and his collaborators to publish the first complete genetic sequence of a living organism, a bacterium called Haemophilus influenzae.

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