Quote Originally Posted by kthulhu View Post
Like everyone is saying, this is definetlely not cut and dry, especially since there is no sequenced genom information on ball pythons and we really have no idea what genes are actually responsible for what mutation.
Hey if someone is willing to fund me a grant I'd be more than happy to do the wetwork to get the sequence . IIRC a single run on one of the next-gen sequencer systems (SOLiD, Illumina) is around $20K (~8 samples/run). Figure in having to build up new chips since it is an untapped organism so make it $50K for first run and to establish the WT baseline. And then a second run on a pied animal to get the mutation isolated, that is another $20K. And then add in a large margin for fudge and we'll cal lit $85K total.

Anyone got $85K laying around LOL??