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Biol. 136, 219±226 (2000). ....................................................................... addendum erratum A universal scaling law for atomic Homologues of Twisted gastrulation diffusionincondensedmatter are extracellular cofactors in M. Dzugutov antagonism of BMP signalling Nature 381, 137±139 (1996). Ian C. Scott, Ira L. Blitz, William N. Pappano, Sarah A. Maas, .................................................................................................................................. The author inadvertently omitted to mention an earlier result1 Ken W. Y. Cho & Daniel S. Greenspan relating diffusion D, excess entropy s, density r and temperature 1=3 1=2 Bs 2 Nature 410, 475±478 (2001). T in liquids as Dr m=kBT Ae . 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The diffusion model presented in this Letter is conceptually distinct from these earlier results in recognizing that (1) liquid dynamics is controlled by the Enskog collisional mechanism, and a Chordin-Flag++ + ++ + b Chordin-Flag++ + Tsg–– + –+ + Tsg–– + (2) the rate of structural relaxation is proportional to the phase-space BMP1–+ + volume, that is, ~ es.ThisleadstoD Cj2Ges,wherej is the atomic BMP1–+ + –– – mTll-1–– – ++ – Mr 116K diameter, G is the collision frequency and C is a universal constant; Mr 116K 84K (1) is corroborated by the ®nding3 that the Kolmogorov±Sinai 84K 50K entropy in liquids, scaled by G, is universally related to s. In contrast 50K 36K 36K to the timescale used in ref. 1, G is explicitly structure dependent; 29K 29K 21K therefore, the variations of parameters in ref. 1 can be explained by 7K 21K non-universality of liquid structures. This Letter uses two-particle 7K approximation of s, but a comprehensive test for full s was reported4. cdNCI CR1CR2 CR3 CR4 Tsg-pc–+ – + –Tsg An advantage of this relation involving no adjustable parameters 15K83K 13K BMP1-Flag++ – – is that it makes it possible to test unambiguously the diffusion mTll-1-Flag ––+ + NCAnti-Flag model it quanti®es. Besides liquids, this model holds for solid ionic CR1CR2 CR3 CR4 IP: Anti-PC +Tsg Anti-PC conductors and quasicrystals. On the other hand, the relation can be 15K65K 29K 13K used to detect a dynamical transition in supercooled liquids5. M efBMP4+– + + 1. Rosenfeld, Y. Phys. Rev. A 15, 2545±2549 (1977). Tsg-pc +–+ Chordin-Flag–+ + + 2. Rosenfeld, Y. J. Phys. Cond. Matter 11, 5415±5427 (1999). Chordin-Flag –++ Tsg-pc ––– + 3. Dzugutov, M., Aurell, E. & Vulpiani, A. Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1762±1765 (1998). Anti-Flag Anti-Flag IP: Anti-PC IP: Anti-BMP4 4. Hoyt, J., Asta, M. & Sadigh, B. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 594±597 (2000). Anti-PC Anti-BMP4 .................................................................5. Dzugutov, M. J. Phys. Cond. Matter 11, 253±260 (1999). ghBMP4 +–+ Tsg-pc+– + errata Tsg-pc –++ BMP4 –++ Anti-BMP4 Anti-PC IP: Anti-PC IP: Anti-BMP4 Anti-PC Anti-BMP4 Initial sequencing and analysis Figure 2 of the human genome g CR1-Flag –++ – – – – International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium CR2/3-Flag ––– + + – – CR4-Flag –– –– – + + Tsg-pc +– +– + – + Mr 29K Nature 409, 860±921 (2001). Anti-Flag 21K .................................................................................................................................. IP: anti-PC 7K In this Article, the last name of Joseph Szustakowski was misspelled Anti-PC in the author list under the section Genome Analysis Group. (His name appeared as `Joseph Szustakowki'.) M Figure 3g 720 © 2001 Macmillan Magazines Ltd NATURE | VOL 411 | 7 JUNE 2001 | www.nature.com articles Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium* * A partial list of authors appears on the opposite page. Af®liations are listed at the end of the paper. ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ The human genome holds an extraordinary trove of information about human development, physiology, medicine and evolution. Here we report the results of an international collaboration to produce and make freely available a draft sequence of the human genome. We also present an initial analysis of the data, describing some of the insights that can be gleaned from the sequence. The rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity in the opening weeks of coordinate regulation of the genes in the clusters. the 20th century1±3 sparked a scienti®c quest to understand the X There appear to be about 30,000±40,000 protein-coding genes in nature and content of genetic information that has propelled the human genomeÐonly about twice as many as in worm or ¯y. biology for the last hundred years. The scienti®c progress made However, the genes are more complex, with more alternative falls naturally into four main phases, corresponding roughly to the splicing generating a larger number of protein products. four quarters of the century. The ®rst established the cellular basis of X The full set of proteins (the `proteome') encoded by the human heredity: the chromosomes. The second de®ned the molecular basis genome is more complex than those of invertebrates. This is due in of heredity: the DNA double helix. The third unlocked the informa- part to the presence of vertebrate-speci®c protein domains and tional basis of heredity, with the discovery of the biological mechan- motifs (an estimated 7% of the total), but more to the fact that ism by which cells read the information contained in genes and with vertebrates appear to have arranged pre-existing components into a the invention of the recombinant DNA technologies of cloning and richer collection of domain architectures. sequencing by which scientists can do the same. X Hundreds of human genes appear likely to have resulted from The last quarter of a century has been marked by a relentless drive horizontal transfer from bacteria at some point in the vertebrate to decipher ®rst genes and then entire genomes, spawning the ®eld lineage. Dozens of genes appear to have been derived from trans- of genomics. The fruits of this work already include the genome posable elements. sequences of 599 viruses and viroids, 205 naturally occurring X Although about half of the human genome derives from trans- plasmids, 185 organelles, 31 eubacteria, seven archaea, one posable elements, there has been a marked decline in the overall fungus, two animals and one plant. activity of such elements in the hominid lineage. DNA transposons Here we report the results of a collaboration involving 20 groups appear to have become completely inactive and long-terminal from the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, repeat (LTR) retroposons may also have done so. Germany and China to produce a draft sequence of the human X The pericentromeric and subtelomeric regions of chromosomes genome. The draft genome sequence was generated from a physical are ®lled with large recent segmental duplications of sequence from map covering more than 96% of the euchromatic part of the human elsewhere in the genome. Segmental duplication is much more genome and, together with additional sequence in public databases, frequent in humans than in