Won for All: How the Drosophila Genome Was Sequenced

by Michael Ashburner

This is the story of the sequencing of the fly genome as told by one of the participants, Michael Ashburner. Written in a diary-like form, half the story is told in numerous footnotes. Ashburner has written a delightful, candid, irreverent, on-the-scene tale filled with eccentric personalities all focused on a single goal. The book also contains an Epilogue that puts Drosophila as a model system in historical context, and an Afterword that discusses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879698020
• ISBN13: 9780879698027
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Length: 107 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.3"