Clontech strikes again 8-(

[Francis Ouellette]

rcwieg at ccmail.monsanto.com (Roger Wiegand) writes:

>It was with sad amusement that I read the article in the March 19 Science
>(v259, p1685) discussing contamination of a Clontech human cDNA library
>with yeast sequences. 

I have come across half a dozen so far, and the joke is that if we
(the yeast genome people) wait long enough, the human genome people
will have done the yeast genome ;-)

Jokes aside, is you come across any such abarent seuences (like 98%
homology from your yeast DNA to humans cDNA), you should report it.
This way they can clean up their database entries.

for Genethon send mail to: genexpress at genethon.fr
and for TIGR (from which I have yet to pick up a homology to yeast
DNA, to their credit!) send mail to: Mark Adams (mdadams at tigr.org).

regards,

francis

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| B.F. Francis "YES on YEAST" Ouellette  
| manager, yeast chromosome I & XVI sequencing project
| dept of biology, McGill university, Montreal, Qc, Canada
| francis at monod.biol.mcgill.ca