Re:Eat that, Clinton & Blair! (Score 4)

this is misinformation tor,

1) much like all the comments here your posting neglects to mention berkeleys fruitfly genome sequencing project that did a vast amount of work and without which celeras data wouldn't have been nearly so useful. it certainly wouldn't have made it to finished so quickly without the mapped BACs would it? which leads to point

2) this crap about celera mapping 90% in one year when the public efforts spent 10 years blah blah blah. This really ticks me off, from the very start the plan with the public effort was to spend the vast majority of time developing the technology and techniques necessary to sequence rapidly and accurately, the accelerated curve has been known for ages and our lab went from sequencing apx 2 mb/year to 20 mb in (I think it was) 98 to over 350 mb now seq stats
Considering that massive purchases of 377 sequencers and scientific collaborations by the hgp contributed VASTLY to the development of the 3700 it's rather crass to read the crowing about how celeras kicked ass while the public effort allegedly just sat around twiddling their thumbs. The press releases from the formation of celera at least give credit to the planning of the hgp
Since the inception of the Human Genome Project (HGP) in 1990, a major shift in technology has been anticipated that would allow the entire sequence to be completed

3) The HGP is now likely sequencing FASTER than celera, I know the doe has 80 megabases(equivalent to the 3700), sanger has 100 3700s and a ton of 377s, that's only 40% of the genome project and celera has what, 230 3700s? hrmm, rough unsubstantiated calcs would put total human effort near least 450 3700s ... ouch! Plus MIT now has more than any other group I believe, (although they aren't all working on human) and there's the vast capacity at washU.
while it's true celera has the largest private supercomputer and that will help with assembling, the DOE started the human genome project, is still involved and just happens to have the largest supercomputers period.

4)where you get the 10x oversampling number I haven't a clue. the goals are laid out here and additionally a figure of 6x is generally aimed for before trying to finish the clone, finished is still the bahama definition of I believe no more than 1 error per 10k

yeah, I'll bet you have stock options and I'm sure they don't bias your postings and don't influence your continued use of outdated figures