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Nature 452, 151 (13 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/452151d; Published online 12 March 2008
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Results of rush to sequence genomes may be nonsense
Thomas C. Erren1, Paul Cullen2 & Michael Erren3
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- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Westphalian Wilhelms-University of Münster, Münster, Germany
In the Commentary 'Common sense for our genomes' (Nature 449, 783–784; 2007), Steven Brenner welcomes the sequencing of the genomes of James Watson and Craig Venter. Although the generally hypothesis-free collection of large amounts of sequence information may indeed turn out to be important, caution is warranted.
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