Silver Project: Ape Genome Sequencing

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1/21/02: Pan troglodytes (chimpanzee) is now within Top-10 most sequenced organisms (ninth) in DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank (145,434,393 bp & 159,212 entries; DDBJ Release 48 on January 2002)
1/4/02: Science paper (Fujiyama et al.) on Chimpanzee BAC-end sequence data was published

All About Apes (related links; related papers; ape taxonomy; short movie); and more to come

Symposium on Evolutionary Genomics [November 4-6, 2001, Atami, Japan]
GEMINI - Genes and Minds Initiative: Workshop on Ape Genomics [March 14 & 15, 2001; Tokyo, Japan]

Saitou Lab at Division of Population Genetics
National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, 411-8540, Japan
email: nsaitou@genes.nig.ac.jp