... DNA (1981) - 16,569 bases * tobacco chloroplast DNA (1986) - 155,844 bases * First complete bacterial genome (H. Influenzae)(1995) - 1.9 x 106 bases * Yeast genome (eukaryote at ~ 1.5 x 107) completed in 1996 * Several archaebacteria * E. coli -- 4 x 106 bases [1997 & 1998] * Several pathogenic bacterial genomes sequenced o Helicobacter pyloris (ulcers) o Treponema pallidium (Syphilis) o Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease) o Chlamydia trachomatis (trachoma - blindness) o Rickettsia prowazekii (epidemic typhus) o Mycobacterium tuberculosis (tuberculosis) * Nematode C. elegans ( ~ 4 x 108) - December 1998 * Drosophila (fruit fly) (2000) * Human genome (rough draft completed 5/00) - 3 x 109 base Bioinformatics is basically recording, annotation, storage, analysis, and searching/retrieval of nucleic acid sequence (genes and RNAs), protein sequence and structural information. The various data bases used to analyse this information woud be explained further. There are ...

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