Analysts estimate that raw material costs will increase in fiscal 2012, though the company cites operational improvements and increased pricing as able to offset this.

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By contrast, Jean Weissenbach and his colleagues at Genoscope in France made their estimate by comparing the raw human sequence now available (about 60% of the total when their paper was written) with that of a puffer fish.

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