CELERA, the company which shared the glory for sequencing the human genome
last summer, now faces claims that its data may be riddled with errors.
As many as half the company’s gene sequences for the fruit fly may contain
mistakes, says Samuel Karlin, a mathematician at Stanford University in
California. His work suggests there might be many errors in other genomes that
have been sequenced using similar techniques, he says.
But others have defended the results. “I would take 50 per cent correct as a
compliment, not a criticism,” says Gerry Rubin of the US’s fly-sequencing
programme at the Howard…
