Nov 4th, 2009 - San Jose Mercury News
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The University of California-Santa Cruz could someday house the world's largest zoo — holding not live animals, but the genetic codes of 10,000 different creatures, many of them exotic or extinct.
This ambitious quest, led by some of the nation's top geneticists and unveiled Wednesday morning, would cost $50 million and take a lifetime to achieve.
But the computer-based conservatory — called the "Genome 10K Project" — would transform biology, building a digital record of molecular triumphs and stumbles across 500 million years of evolutionary history.
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