Genome databases worry about yeast (and other) infections
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French laboratory Genethon presented to UNESCO a database of 2000 mapped DNA sequences of the human genome that was later discovered to be contaminated by cDNA from bacteria or yeast. This embarrassment brings up the question of quality control in electronically submitted DNA databases.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1993
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Genome shortcut leads to problems
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The Human Genome Project and other gene-mapping projects put much faith and multi-million dollar grants into extra-large yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) that carried the entire human genome. The YACS were found to have DNA sequences scrambled, deleted or spliced together.
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Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1993
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Genome project goes commercial
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Venture capitalists are investing in companies that do genome research. This funding is good, but conflict of interest problems are arising because government-funded academics are also working in the private sector for profit.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1993
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