Anyway, the draft sequence of the human genome was done in the year 2000, published in the year 2001.
The draft sequence of several complete protozoan genomes is now available and genome projects are ongoing for a number of other species.
The centrepiece is the draft sequence of the roughly three billion nucleotides the quartet of molecules that make up DNA that is the genome of a mouse.
The "draft" sequence they had released was just a landmark along the way.Gradually the details of each human chromosome have been emerging.
The international consortium, principally laboratories in Britain and the United States, with contributions from China, France, Germany and Japan, spent $300 million to prepare the draft sequence of the human genome.
Prof Pääbo is the head of genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and led the team that created the draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome.
The international consortium  principally laboratories in the United States and Britain, but including contributions from France, Germany, China and Japan  together spent about $300 million to prepare the draft sequence of the human genome.
This experience ultimately demonstrated that the broad and early availability of sequence data greatly benefited life sciences research by leading to many new insights and discoveries2, including new information on 30 disease genes published prior to the draft sequence.
(About 85% of the promised 90% of the draft sequence is now available in Genbank).
The draft sequence was sent to the Microbial Genome Annotation Pipeline (MiGAP, Database Center for Life Science, Japan) for annotation.
Researchers are now examining the draft sequence obtained from the girl's ancient DNA to try to see exactly which genes modern humans have inherited from Denisovans.
