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Published online 30 April 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030428-8
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Genome pioneer sets sights on Sargasso Sea
Craig Venter aims to sequence every bug in entire ecosystem.
US genome pioneer Craig Venter has been granted $9million to sequence the DNA of every microscopic organism in an ecosystem.
The Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives (IBEA), which Venter heads, has already begun sequencing every microbe in the Sargasso Sea, a region of the Atlantic Ocean between the Azores and the West Indies that is bounded by ocean currents.
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