** This thread discusses the Content article: Project to Analyse the Cocoa Genome **

Should get a lot of sequencing done for $10 million. With the newer 454 type machines I'd have thought they could get the sequence pretty early on and spend the remaining 8m on functional analysis. I wonder what they're planning to do with the information.....If it were me I'd have a look to see if the metabolic pathway could be reconstituted in something a bacterium like E. coli. Could make the raw ingredients in a big fermentor rather than wait for plants to produce it.