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Opinion Comparative genomics of archaea: how much have we learned in six years, and what’s next? Kira S Makarova and Eugene V Koonin Address: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. Correspondence: Eugene V Koonin. E-mail: koonin@ Published: 16 July 2003 Genome Biology 2003, 4:115 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2003/4/8/115 ? 2003 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract Archaea comprise one of the three distinct domains of life (with bacteria and eukaryote