Large-Scale Sequencing of Mammoth DNA
[ Posted by Urban Hafner ]
A while ago I found a link to a Science article on the sequencing of part of the mammoth genome on Stephen Rudd’s blog . The article itself is quite technical and therefore not the most interesting read ever, but it’s interesting to know how far you can get with sequencing the genome of an extinct species. After all they managed to sequence 3,000,000bp.
Also, you get to read the words metagenomics and paleogenomics. Which might either make you run away screaming or inspire you to create new ones (anyone for meta-paleo-metabolomics? Submission of better (i.e. longer and less comprehensible) ones now open)). ;-)
