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It is ten years we got the first complete piece of the human genome, chromosome 22.

We’ve got tons of genomes now, but of course the human genome was the first large one, and it is worth remembering, in these “slash-and-burn” genome days where we get a new large genome every other month, that most of those genomes are actually only at a (rough) draft level.  Only the human and mouse genome are really considered “complete”, the rest are just drafts and in many cases there are still many issues to work out with over-collapsed assemblies and such and with all the troublesome regions missing.

Hopefully, we will go back to many of the genomes to fix them and complete them, when we are done creating drafts of all the interesting species.

Anyway, I have some more to say on this issue but I have to wait for a paper that I want to review, but a paper that is held back right now waiting for the orangutan genome paper to be out… so stay tuned.

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I had to get up at 3 am yesterday to go to the airport.  Since we were out for a pint to celebrate the end of the meeting the evening before, it meant that I didn’t get a whole lot of sleep that night.  I couldn’t sleep on the flight either, ’cause Ryan Air likes to make announcements over the speakers every five minutes.

Oh well, I slept when I got home — actually slept most of the afternoon and all night, so I must really have been tired — but now, because of all the sleeping, I haven’t prepared the lecture I am to give in a few hours, so I am desperately looking over my notes now.

Oy!

It’s good there’s only two days till the weekend.

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