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Published online 14 April 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/458812a
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Time to sequence the 'red and the dead'
New projects could tackle the genomics of species both critically endangered and already extinct.
On the first weekend in April, a couple of dozen leading molecular biologists, conservationists and museum curators gathered at Pennsylvania State University in University Park to brainstorm about ways of harnessing the power of the latest molecular sequencing techniques to conservation goals.
"The cost of genome sequencing is falling at an extraordinary rate," says workshop co-organizer Stephan Schuster of Penn State University, who was a driving force behind the 2008 sequencing of a woolly-mammoth genome, the first complete genome of an extinct animal.
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