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Nature 417, 778 (20 June 2002) | doi:10.1038/417778b

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Draft cow genome heads the field

David Adam

A biotechnology company is hoping to help farmers pick cash cows from bum steers, after rounding up the first draft genome sequence of cattle.Researchers at MetaMorphix in Savage, Maryland, say they have not only completed a working draft of the genome, but have also identified some 600,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the sequence.