DNA Sequencing Complete in Record Time!

Darkfrog submitted, created time 8 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)

Dr. Watson, I presume? Although criticisms remain -- largely that the small fragments into which the man's genome was snipped might not have been reassembled properly -- a full genome in only four months is plenty to crow about.

Watson's genome is not the first to be sequenced. We may recall that J. Craig Venter's was as well, but Venter's project cost US$100 million and Watson's only $1.5 million.

What strikes me about this article is that it's the first time I've seen any reference to an X-Prize for sequencing

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DNA Pioneer’s Genome Blurs Race Lines

jane2007 submitted, created time 1 year 4 weeks (www.nytimes.com)

James D. Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and winner of the Nobel prize, raised a storm recently when a British newspaper quoted him saying that black Africans are not as intelligent as whites. But his own brilliant DNA seems to blur the lines.

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