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1st Microbial Genome Map Completed

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1st Microbial Genome Map Completed 

After efforts of one year or more, Chinese scientists recently determined the complete sequence(序列) of a kind of thermophilic(喜温的) bacteria(细菌), with the rate(比例) of coverage (囊括))reaching 100 percent, and the rate of accuracy (准确率)99.99 percent, thereby obtaining the first microbial(微生物) genome (基因) "map". This marks (标志)an important step (步骤) forward taken by China in its genome studies. 

By far, scientists have discovered (发现)2,808 genes, 1,481 of them are genes with known functions(功能), while the functions of the remaining (剩余的)1,327 remain unknown. 


Researchers have found that this kind of bacteria is a new bacterium that has never been reported internationally. 


Scientists with the Human Genome Center, Institute of Microbiology (微生物所)and Institute of Bio-physics (生物物理所)under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中科院)have begun to determine the DNA sequence of this kind of thermophilic bacteria since May 1999 and have found that it has more than 2.6 million base(基)-pairs.