The rat genome is next. Celera Genomics and the Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston have won a grant worth $58 million to sequence the DNA of the
brown rat (Rattus norvegicus). The grant will come from the publicly funded
institutes that are still vying with Celera to finish sequencing the human
genome. The work should take two years and all information will be put into
public databases. “We’re pleased to be collaborating on this NIH-funded project
to sequence the rat genome,” says Celera’s founder, Craig Venter
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