Celera Has Assembled Complete Mouse Genome

Ant writes: "Celera Genomics said Friday that it has completed the assembly of the mouse genome. The genetics research company, which began the sequencing process a year ago, said its map now ensures greater than 99 percent representation of the genome." From rice to mice to humans, the mapping continues.

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Re:Licensing?

[diaphanous]

Sadly, given Celera's past history, it will almost certainly be proprietary. Although they have benefited immensely from government funded research and data collection, they have refused to make their sequence data publicly available in GenBank. Most journals require you to publish your sequence data in GenBank as a condition for publication of papers related to the sequence data. Celera was granted a special exemption to this policy by Science when they published their paper on the human genome recently and I anticipate a similar special exemption will be allowed for the mouse data as well, though I haven't closely followed what's going on with the mouse genome, since I work on Acetabularia Acetabulum (this is my professor's web page, not mine, the views expressed here are not ...and so on)

If you want to analyze publicly available gene sequence data, you can use GenBank at NCBI and software from Bioinformatics.org. There is also a great directory of online molecular biology tools and information here