Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

This was the first large part of the genome that was sequenced, in 1981: Cambridge Reference Sequence. Presumably they picked it because it is short and does not undergo crossover.

About 16.6 kbp:

TODO: many places say "exactly" 16,569, it seems that variable number tandem repeat are either rare or don't occur!

Databases and projects:

20k genes, 3 billion base pairs. We can handle this!!!

Exciting... sometimes cruel. But too exciting not to do:

Databases and projects:

Since rat and mouse are not scientifically specific names, we'll just use them interchangeably.

When one specific species is implied, we will mean Mus musculus by default.