Company Claims To Have Workable Draft of Human Genome

cybaea writes "The BBC reports that the human genome is now completely mapped. A largely unknown company beat all the others to it. " The company in question isn't Celera, or any of the other companies everyone's been talking about. It's a company called Doubletwist (Get it?) that claims to have a first "working draft" of the genes in question. Details are still sketchy - if you see more, please post links in the story below.

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[jbarnett]

The private company Doubletwist is a relative newcomer in the genome race and claim to have obtained the first "working draft" of the entire human genome.

Everyone should note that this draft is untested and still in the development stage, please test thoughly, but please do not incorparte this into your clones yet. With all first or alpha drafts this still is under heavey development and may contain bugs and new fearture are being added daily for example:

Three weeks ago, Celera's CEO Craig Venter announced that his company had obtained the entire gene sequence of a human but had not yet assembled it into the correct order. He added that it would only take them a few weeks to complete that task.

Creating clones with misconfigured and out-of-order genes can cause mutation and system crashes. This map is for educational purposes only, USE AT YOUR CLONES RISK!!!!