In the light of its announcements, it might be thought that Celera would make its deadline with time to spare: 2.7 billion bases is, after all, about 80% of the total human genome.
"People should look at Gates as someone who has been successful as a total human being, not just as a businessman, " says Alexandra Levit, a career consultant and author of How'd You Score That Gig?
The BGI began in 1999, when Dr Yang muscled his way into the human-genome project, cornering part of the tip of chromosome three (about 1% of the total human genome) as the Chinese contribution to that international project.
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Five have gone on to win Nobel prizes, but no one really knows whether those juicy rewards really advanced the sum total of human knowledge.
Comparing raw human gene sequences with known puffer-fish genes suggests that the human total is around 30, 000.
Just in time for Halloween, Jarre's new Aeroskull dock embodies 70 watts of total power in a human-like cranium, complete with a pair of speaker-packing shades.
For me his legs looked like the human landscape of total desperation.
The skeletons in Total Recall were done by digitizing a human skeleton and then matching the motion to the movement of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Representative DAVID OBEY (Democrat, Wisconsin): We are simply getting spreadsheets which show total numbers by rough category such as human services or field operations.
A. wrongly accused of being a double agent and held for three years in total isolation (no reading material, no news, no human contact except with interrogators) in a closet-size concrete cell near Williamsburg, Virginia, made chess sets from threads and a calendar from lint (only to have them discovered and swept away).
The yearly total amounts to somewhat more than all the words ever spoken by human beings--and it was up 68% from two years earlier.
In total, the expression of 42 genes linked to vital processes in human cells was altered by the presence of E. faecalis in this state.
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.
Today, says deGraf, the cost to do a total computer animation of Max would be about the same as hiring a human and creating the effects around him.
Three new human infections have been recorded in Jiangsu and Shanghai, bringing the total number to 24.
Oppenheimer's directorship of Los Alamos required both the scientific skills to understand every aspect of the bomb's design and the human touch necessary to manage the thousands of scientists and engineers living, in total secrecy, atop an isolated mesa in the wilds of New Mexico.
The total heat and electric needs of the world can be successfully met by skillfully utilizing the rubbish human society generates each year in their homes and industrial and commercial establishments.
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There are around 80, 000 workers in Foxconn by May this year, about one fifth of the total number of new jobs created by major investment projects in Chengdu last year, according to statistics from Chengdu Human Resources and Social Security Bureau.
Secretary MIKE LEAVITT (Secretary, Health and Human Services): Where a million more beneficiaries have signed up since we last spoke, bringing the total to 37 million.
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