JGI Says 2.8 M Base Pair Sequence Is a Day's Work

May 18, 2000

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WALNUT CREEK, Calif.--The US Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute said this month that it took "one day's production capacity" over a two day period to complete the shotgun genomic sequence of the 2.8 million base pairs of Enterococcus faecium, a bacterium that is the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections.

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