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Celera crosses finish line

April 6, 2000 7:00 AM UTC

CRA announced today that it had completed the genome of a single person, and will have it assembled in 3-6 weeks. CRA President and Chief Scientific Officer J. Craig Venter made the announcement at a hearing of the House Science Committee's subcommittee on energy and environment. He said the company will hold an "annotation jamboree" shortly after completing the assembly and will then make the entire sequence public.

CRA, which began its human genome sequencing project in September 1999, will annotate the data and will continue sequencing for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) diversity and gap closure. The company said it will complete SNP sequencing of six individuals over the next few months. ...