1.   And last summer, the complete genome of an archaean organism was decoded for the first time, a landmark scientific step.

2.   And lowly as it is, yeast is the most complex organism whose complete genome, or set of genes, scientists have deciphered.

3.   Celera was set to declare victory in achieving an effectively complete genome assembly many months before the consortium could do so.

4.   Celera in particular has spent several hundred million dollars to develop its own complete human genome sequence.

5.   For the consortium, the surety of opting for a draw now may have seemed better than the risks of claiming victory with a complete genome much later.

6.   Reading longer stretches of DNA makes it easier to piece them together into a complete genome.

7.   The mapping of the complete human genome is not far off.

8.   The public consortium, by contrast, follows a more cautious strategy of collecting the small pieces into segments and then joining these into a complete genome.

9.   Genetic discrimination is drawing attention this week because of the first publication of the complete human genome map and sequence.

10.   Meanwhile, there was interest in biotech stocks as scientific magazines published for the first time the complete human genome map and sequence.