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Finished or Really, Really Finished?

Jul 24, 2007

Steven Salzberg is bit skeptical of an article in BMC Biology that says the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae is the first completely finished eukaryote genome. On his blog, Salzberg says he is aware that many "finished" genomes were published without their telomeres or with a few gaps, but four years after the C. elegans genome was published, the researchers announced it was really finished — so, he wonders, how could C. merolae be the first?

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