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2 unusual facts about 1000 Plant Genomes Project


1000 Plant Genomes Project

Since mRNA is the starting material, the amount of sequence representation for a given gene will be based on the expression level (how many mRNA molecules it produces).

Since only the transcriptome is being sequenced, the project will not reveal information about gene regulatory sequence, non-coding RNAs, DNA repetitive elements, or other genomic features that are not part of the coding sequence.



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