But it's in the world of cheese that the sequencing project should prove most directly useful.
These results suggested that the sequencing data were good enough for downstream analyses.
Both teams believe that the sequencing and interpretation of the human genome is a historic event and expressed pride in their accomplishments.
The more a DNA sequence is read, the greater the certainty that the sequencing machine read the sequence accurately.
Mr. Ricketts conceded that the "sequencing" of his lobbying key public officials had been deficient.
She notes simply that the sequencing shows that competition law pays no heed to a company's ownership.
Tony White, chief executive of Applera, said the project would answer critics who say that the sequencing of the human genome, while a nice science project, is not a good basis for a business.
The larger footprint also means that the Sequencing and Analysis Center's wet lab and bioinformatics teams can now work in the same space, an arrangement that wasn't possible in the past.
Now that the sequencing of the human genome has been completed, all sorts of gene-therapy treatments are beginning to look possible.
Joseph Thakuria, the PGP's medical director and a clinical geneticist at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, says that the sequencing of 20,000 genes in a patient is remarkable.
The rarefaction analysis curves for each group were near saturation, suggesting that the sequencing data had a high quality and that very few new species were present (Fig. 4a).
