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Commentary
Nature 449, 783-784 (18 October 2007) | doi:10.1038/449783a; Published online 17 October 2007
Common sense for our genomes
Steven E. Brenner1
- Steven E. Brenner is at the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
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Abstract
A personal DNA sequence is not yet practically useful. But it could be, argues Steven E. Brenner, if we had the right resources available to interpret genomes.
Revelation of the complete DNA sequences of James Watson and J. Craig Venter elicited headlines in recent months, but most press reports struggled to offer meaningful interpretations.
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