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James Watson's genome sequenced

Discoverer of the double helix blazes trail for personal genomics.

Nobel laureate James D. Watson peered deep into his genome yesterday. And soon, anyone else interested in his genetic makeup will be able to do the same.

Read the story here.

Posted by Nicola Jones on June 1, 2007 11:19 AM |

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Did they really sequence his genome or was it just the SNP's? In the latter case they would have missed, for example, copy number variations.

Posted by: chiz | June 3, 2007 04:40 AM

I assume they really did :) Whole genome Snps genotyping you can do nowadays in about three days and the costs are less then thousand euro per individual. Copy number variations are also detectable with Snps.

Posted by: Marianna | June 4, 2007 02:04 PM

What is the genbank accession number? The sequence doesn't appear to be there yet. When is it supposed to appear?

Posted by: rick | June 5, 2007 12:39 AM

Erika, the writer, who for some reason is having trouble with the comments feature, tells me:

"Genbank hasn't posted the Watson data yet. When the data are posted, they will be at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces.
FYI, you can already find the Venter data there.”


Posted by: Oliver | June 5, 2007 07:28 PM

Well, I've been looking for Watson's/Venter's genomes but cannot find them. How do you look them up in GenBank? I've been to the Trace archives but haven't been able to find either one. If you say Watson's isn't available yet, where is Venters?

Posted by: Tim | June 13, 2007 04:15 PM

Tim - Nature's experts on this subject tell me the genomes are not yet available in GenBank because neither has been published. Presumably they will be available at the time of publication of papers analyzing the sequences.

Posted by: nicola jones | June 13, 2007 04:36 PM

Oh, thanks. Is there any word as to when that will be?

Out of curiousity, would you get your genome sequenced if you could? (or anyone, just throwing it out there)

Posted by: Tim | June 14, 2007 08:56 PM

Oh, sorry for posting so much, but could anyone find Venter's DNA? I know I've heard many people say it's in the Trace Archives at GenBank, but anyone want to show me a link to the actual sequences? How do you know it's actually his?

Posted by: Tim | June 14, 2007 08:59 PM

hi to all,

i had found link for watson & venter genome. person who want this can mail me personally on pradeepnagda@gmail.com


Posted by: pradeep nagda | June 28, 2007 04:48 AM

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