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What is generally the starting material for whole-genome shotgun sequencing of genomic dna?

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Answer: The first step in shotgun sequencing an entire genome is to digest the genome into a large number of small fragments suitable for sequencing. All the small fragments are then cloned and sequenced. Computers analyze the sequence data for overlapping regions and assemble the sequences into several large contigs.

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