Thursday, June 26, 2008

A Genetic Quest for Better Chocolate

So to protect its long-term supplies and help sustain cocoa farmers, Mars approached researchers at the United States Department of Agriculture and then sought big-time computing firepower at I.B.M. Labs. The result, to be formally announced Thursday, is a five-year project to sequence and analyze the entire cocoa genome.

NYTimes.com

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