Länk - Shotgun sequencing upptäckte bakterier stora som virus

published Dec 27, 2006 01:15   by admin ( last modified Dec 27, 2006 01:15 )
All three were so small - the size of large viruses - as to be virtually invisible under a microscope, and belonged to a totally new phylum of Archaea, microorganisms that have been around for billions of years. What made Baker's find possible was shotgun sequencing, a technique developed and made famous by Celera Corp., which used it to sequence the human genome in record time...


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