Look Long upon a Monkey's Genes

Thanks for the info, very interesting indeed. Just as a sidenote, our ability to sequence DNA seems to following Moore's Law. Like computer chips, every 18 months we are able to read sequence twice as fast at the same cost. Right now that means more machines, but techniques are getting quicker as well. Just from memory, there was a sequencing lab in a journal about two years ago that claimed they could do an entire bacterial genome (around 5 megabases) in a day and a half after they completed their shotgun library. Exciting times indeed.