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The paper describing it's here (courtesy of Nature, of course), for those who are interested. It's the counterpart of human chromosome 21, although about 1% smaller due to lower numbers of transposon remnants.
Interestingly, a large majority of the centres involved in this are far-eastern - 5 in Japan, 3 in Taiwan, 2 in China and one in Korea. And 4 in Germany. They seem from the paper to have used a purely heirarchical clone-shotgun approach rather than having any whole-genome shotgun element. In a major departure from practice on the human project, the DNA donors are identified by name - Clint, Donald and Gon.
Interestingly, a large majority of the centres involved in this are far-eastern - 5 in Japan, 3 in Taiwan, 2 in China and one in Korea. And 4 in Germany. They seem from the paper to have used a purely heirarchical clone-shotgun approach rather than having any whole-genome shotgun element. In a major departure from practice on the human project, the DNA donors are identified by name - Clint, Donald and Gon.
