Singapore scientists join international study of 10,000 vertebrates' genomes
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 19:35
in Biology & Nature
The Singapore laboratory that deciphered the DNA codes, or genomes, of the famed fugu (or pufferfish) and elephant shark, has joined The Genome 10K Project, an international effort to build an invaluable repository of DNA sequences on 10,000 species of animals for conducting comparative studies on a scale that currently can not be achieved.