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Beijing Institute Begins Sequencing Rice and Pig

May 18, 2000
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BEIJING--The Beijing Genomics Institute announced that it will begin rice and pig genome sequencing projects. The majority of the sequencing for both projects will be done at the institute's recently opened sequencing facility using Amersham Pharmacia Biotech's MegaBace 1000 DNA sequencer.

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