CATALOGUING INVISIBLE LIFE: MICROBE GENOME EMERGES FROM LAKE SEDIMENT
August 17, 2008
August 17, 2008
SEATTLE, Aug. 17 -- The University of Washington issued the following news release:
When entrepreneurial geneticist Craig Venter sailed around the world on his yacht sequencing samples of seawater, it was an ambitious project to use genetics to understand invisible ecological communities. But his scientific legacy was disappointing - a jumble of mystery DNA fragments belonging to thousands of unknown organisms.
Now a team led by a University of Washington scientist . . .
When entrepreneurial geneticist Craig Venter sailed around the world on his yacht sequencing samples of seawater, it was an ambitious project to use genetics to understand invisible ecological communities. But his scientific legacy was disappointing - a jumble of mystery DNA fragments belonging to thousands of unknown organisms.
Now a team led by a University of Washington scientist . . .