THE GENOME OF CAENORHABDITIS-ELEGANS

被引:112
作者
WATERSTON, R [1 ]
SULSTON, J [1 ]
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[1] WASHINGTON UNIV,SCH MED,CTR GENOME SEQUENCING,ST LOUIS,MO 63110
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10.1073/pnas.92.24.10836
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The physical map of the 100-Mb Caenorhabditis elegans genome consists of 17,500 cosmids and 3500 yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs). A total of 22.5 Mb has been sequenced, with the remainder expected by 1998. A further 15.5 Mb of unfinished sequence is freely available online: because the areas sequenced so far are relatively gene rich, about half the 13,000 genes can now be scanned. More than a quarter of the genes are represented by expressed sequence tags (ESTs), All information pertaining to the genome is publicly available in the ACeDB data base.
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页码:10836 / 10840
页数:5
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