"It's early days," said Richard Buggs, lecturer in biological sciences at Queen Mary, who is sequencing the ash tree genome.
Furthermore, a French institute called Genoscope is sequencing the banana genome, and once that is complete Dale might be able to insert a disease-resistance gene from a wild banana.
"The reform plan has lots of moving, interdependent parts and in many ways the key task is sequencing," said Philip Peters, a Cuba expert at the Lexington Institute.
The federally financed Cancer Genome Atlas, for instance, is sequencing the genomes of thousands of tumors and of healthy tissue from the same people, looking for genetic causes of cancer.
Back at the lab, Dr. Pace's team is sequencing DNA in the water samples and finding evidence that this slime may be knocked loose, carrying organisms throughout a water distribution system.
And, in what he says is the most ambitious undertaking in the history of life sciences, the United States is sequencing the genomes of thousands of cancers, a project on which Dr. DePinho's wife, Dr. Lynda Chin, is a leading researcher.
The Human Microbiome Project, which is sequencing the microbial populations in the human digestive tract, has generated about a million times as much sequence data as a single human genome, said C. Titus Brown, a bioinformatics specialist at Michigan State University.
One obvious problem is sequencing.
Many crops genome has sequenced or is sequencing with the development of sequencing technology.
The conventional approach for genotyping RET mutations is sequencing the exons.
The workflow is sequencing platform agnostic, and thus, can be used in low resource settings where access to traditional Sanger sequencing is the only option available.
