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Rising in the East

Gregory A Petsko

Author Affiliations

Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA

Genome Biology 2010, 11:102 doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-1-102

Published: 29 January 2010

The genome sequence of the giant panda using next- generation sequencing marks a watershed in genome sequencing - in more ways than one.