Rice genome consortium will finish ahead of schedule

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Date accessed: 25 February 2001

Nature 409, 752 - 753 (2001) © Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

15 February 2001

[TOKYO] Tokyo The International Rice Genome Sequencing Project has announced that it will finish sequencing of the Oryza japonica rice genome by the end of this year.

The publicly funded, 10-country consortium, led by a Japanese research team, had previously targeted 2004 for completing its reading of the estimated 430 million bases of DNA that make up the rice genome.

Fast food: the publicly funded group sequencing the rice genome is speeding up its effort.

But last month a private company announced that it had completed the sequence (see Nature 409, 551; 2000). Leaders of the consortium say they must finish the project to ensure that the data are accurate and freely available.

Category: 32. Genome Project and Genomics