Finally, the Book of Life and Instructions for Navigating It
SciencePublished 30 June 2000
Elizabeth Pennisi
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TL;DR
The race is over: two rival teams have each completed a version of the "book of life"--a rough draft of the complete human genetic code, so that everyone from workaday biologists to pharmaceutical giants can mine its gold.
Abstract
The race is over. On 26 June, to much fanfare, two rival teams announced that they had each completed a version of the "book of life"--a rough draft of the complete human genetic code. So what, exactly, is in these two different volumes, and how will they fine-tune it so that everyone from workaday biologists to pharmaceutical giants can mine its gold?
Keywords
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology