Nick Wade thinks there's a race to decode genomes. CNN thinks there's a race to map the human genome:
$10 million prize for mapping human genomes
Sturtevant mapped genomes. The contest is to sequence and assemble a genome. Well, that's what we think the contest is. And it's pretty unclear how they will measure accuracy.
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