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BGSU undergraduates to pilot groundbreaking genome project

Bowling Green State University biology undergraduates will soon be contributing to the body of knowledge in genomics while they learn. The university has been selected as one of 12 institutions nationwide to pilot the new Microbial Genome Annotation research program through the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute.

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