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.

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Head of the investigation, Det Supt Pete Hornby, said officers were in the early stages of their inquiries "working to establish the sequence of events which led to this evening's tragic outcome".

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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.

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The Rail Accident Investigation Branch said signals were working correctly but the closure sequence started earlier.

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According to Virginia Walbot, a botanist at Stanford University who is one of the Nature paper's authors, the Arabidopsis sequence will be a boon to researchers working on economically important plants, such as maize, that have large genomes which are harder to alter experimentally.

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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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