Last week, Celera announced it had delivered 1.2 billion base pairs of the humane genome sequence to its subscribers.
Cholera is far from beaten, but the new genome sequence will provide another useful stick to continue its thrashing.
When the genome sequence was completed in 2001, the company was vindicated.
The genome sequence may also prove a boon to vaccine makers.
The contrast between the beaming scientist and his falling stock begs the question that will determine Celera's fortune: How much money is the genome sequence really worth?
Simply having a full genome sequence does not change this.
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As well as leading China's contribution to the human genome sequence and working with Danish partners on the pig genome, this week the institute announced completion of a detailed map of the rice genome.
Having the genome sequence to hand should give researchers an opportunity to start tinkering with other Vibrio genes to see which are responsible for such collateral damage, and perhaps to deactivate them in existing formulations.
In general terms, a change in your genome sequence can mean a small alteration, like removing or adding a single link in a chain, or it can mean a structural change involving bigger chunks, like removing or adding whole sections of the chain.
Brazilian sugar growers are helping to finance another new project, to sequence the genome of sugar cane.
The cost of sequencing has plummeted over the past decade, and several technologies have emerged, each backed by different firms which will, for a suitable consideration, happily sequence your genome.
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Dr. Lin has created a crowd sourcing model where patients and their families can raise funds through social networking, use those funds to sequence a genome using services such as IGS, partner with geneticists willing to help interpret the results, and then make the case to pharmaceutical companies to pursue novel treatments based on solid biological data.
At the core of this progress is the improving ability to sequence the human genome.
New machines from IBM and EMC will replace the supercomputers used to sequence the human genome.
Craig Venter tied (some say beat) the mighty U.S. government in the race to sequence the human genome.
He made headlines racing the government to sequence the human genome in 2000.
Before that, he was involved in the effort to sequence the human genome.
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The researchers, along with other scientists across the world, are now working to sequence the complete genome of other close relatives to humans, including gorillas and orangutans.
They enlisted the help of several scientists, including Eric Lander of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who went on to become a leading light in the effort to sequence the human genome.
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.
"Our ability to grow Plasmodium in the fruit fly is especially fortunate because scientists recently determined the complete sequence of the Drosophila genome, " says Dr Shahabuddin.
Earlier this year, Monsanto, a large biotechnology firm, announced a rough-and-ready sequence of the rice genome, and an international consortium is now trying to refine it.
But since the first draft sequence of the human genome was released in 2000, scientists have realized that junk DNA plays a key role in switching genes on and off.
At first he teamed up with Bill Haseltine , a virus geneticist with a record as an entrepreneur, to start an institute and a company, Human Genome Sciences, to exploit expressed sequence tags.
Though the firm has proved the principle, a single pore would take about 70 days to sequence an entire human genome (which has roughly the same number of letters as 1, 000 Russian novels).
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The monumental effort to sequence the entire human genome -- to spell out the 3 billion or so combinations of those letters in a cell's DNA -- is keeping a lot of academic and commercial laboratories busy.
Case in point: On Monday, DeCode Genetics published an important genetic map--assembled by methods very different from those used to create the sequence of the human genome--that will make it much easier for scientists to hunt down new genes linked to disease.
It's also the 10th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project, which set out to sequence the more than 3 billion letters in our genetic code.
This morning, scientists at the National Genome Health Research Institute announced plans to sequence the genes of 1, 000 patients with heart disease using the machines being made by Illumina.
Ten years after the completion of the human genome project, competition between instrument makers and attempts to capture medical value from DNA sequence data continue to make the news.
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