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Current sequencing technology can only determine about 600 consecutive base pairs of DNA in a single read. Hence, to obtain the sequence of a larger stretch of DNA, one must randomly chop it up into small pieces, which are then read and "assembled" (so-called shotgun sequencing). One strategy has been to assembly 150 Kps at a time, in a slow-but-sure approach. Celera Genomics favors "Whole Genome Shotgun Assembly" (using a "double-barreled" shotgun), relying heavily on bioinformatics to assemble the whole genome in-silico within a short time-frame.

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