date:Nov 29, 2012
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The achievement was published in a paper in the journal Nature.
The USDA scientists - working as part of an international team - used the whole genome shotgun sequencing approach, which essentially breaks up the genome into smaller, more workable segments for analysis and then pieces them together.
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