Hi, when was the sequencing of C. elegans’ genome completely completed? I thought it was at the end of 2002 but recently I’ve read it was later and it’s important for a uni. report I’ve got to hand in.
Hoping you can help me, thanks.
Most of the sequence was done in 1998 and the missing gaps were finished by October 2002.
http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/C_elegans/
Good luck!
Bear in mind that genomes are never really finished. Very minor corrections have been made ever since the worm genome was published in 1998. E.g. in March 2009, 2 bp were removed from the genome and 2 bp were added (http://wiki.wormbase.org/index.php/WS201). Very occasionally, bigger changes will be made which might affect a few hundred nucleotides. No sequencing technology is 100% accurate, so the more you look at a genome sequence, the more errors you will discover.