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March/April 2001

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"It's like having a big book like Don Quixote...but you're missing 100 words, and some words are in the wrong order."

—Richard Myers, professor genetics and director of the Stanford Human Genome center, describing his team's challenge in finalizing the human genome swquence, a portion of which they published in February.

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