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5、1-02-4328-6PrintedinSingaporebyMainlandPressForewordAtthetimeofwritingthisforeword(June1998),thegenomeof15unicellularspecieshavebeencompletelysequencedandmadeavailabletothescientificcommunity:tenEubacteria,fourArchaebacteriaandyeast,thconlyeucaryoticcells
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8、nlyapproximately3,000havesofarbeencultured,thentheenormoustaskofidentifyingthebacterialworldthroughthesequencingofitsgeiiomesisstilltobeaccomplished.Dozensofsequencingcenters(rapidlyexpandingtobecomehundredsinnumber