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Nat Genet,
1999]
One of the founders of molecular biology, Al Hershey, proffered a vision of heaven, in which one would come into the lab every morning knowing what experiment to do, knowing that it was going to work and knowing that the results would be important. Whether the authors of the Caenorhabditis elegans genome project, published recently in Science felt they had ascended into heaven while performing this gigantic piece of work is unclear, but the project seems to fulfill Hershey's criteria.