FIGURE 2. Comparative benefits.
From the following article:
Jane Grimwood and Jeremy Schmutz
Nature 425, 775-776(23 October 2003)
doi:10.1038/425775a
The increasing availability of draft genome sequences for other vertebrates is allowing better predictions of which stretches of human DNA constitute genes. This timeline shows the publication dates of the finished human chromosomes 22, 21, 20, 14, Y, 7 and 6. The green boxes indicate the cross-species comparisons that were included in the papers concerned; Fugu and Tetraodon are species of pufferfish that were chosen for sequencing because of their compact genomes. Sequencing proceeds from 'raw reads', to drafts of various versions, to finished; the light green box indicates the — obviously — limited comparison possible of the human Y chromosome with the draft sequence of a female mouse.
