{"id":744,"date":"2003-09-27T09:39:50","date_gmt":"2003-09-27T13:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=744"},"modified":"2003-09-27T09:39:50","modified_gmt":"2003-09-27T13:39:50","slug":"more-doggy-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"more doggy nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"The <span class=\"caps\">BBC <\/span>did not just get its metaphors wrong about Craig Venter&#8217;s sequencing of his poodle&#8217;s genome. they failed to notice that he hasn&#8217;t actually done it. According to the AP report, <blockquote>&#8220;The researchers achieved what is called 1.5 X coverage of the dog genome. This means many <span class=\"caps\">DNA <\/span>fragments remain and the results are less accurate than the\ncompleted sequences of some other species. For instance, the mouse has been sequenced to 8 X coverage, which is considered ideal and essentially complete.&#8221;<\/blockquote> It is really rather shaming that the <span class=\"caps\">BBC&#8217;<\/span>s science coverage should be so bad.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"caps\">BBC <\/span>did not just get its metaphors wrong about Craig Venter&#8217;s sequencing of his poodle&#8217;s genome. they failed to notice that he hasn&#8217;t actually done it. According to the AP report, &#8220;The researchers achieved what is called 1.5 X &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=744\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=744\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}