The maps and discoveries made after examining them are being published February 18 in more than 20 scientific papers in Nature and affiliated journals by a large consortium of researchers involved with the Roadmap
Epigenomics Project.
The crew of researchers involved in the Roadmap
Epigenomics Project premiered their findings in more than 20 scientific papers published in February (SN: 3/21/15, p. 6).
In 2008 the National Institutes of Health launched the $ 190 - million Roadmap
Epigenomics Project with the goal of cataloguing the epigenetic marks in the major human cell types and tissues.
Not exact matches
The
Epigenomics Roadmap, the ENCODE
Project, and other functional genomics initiatives are just so vital as we expand our search for phenotypically - relevant variants outside of the coding regions.
Called the Center for
Epigenomics of the Mouse Brain Atlas (CEMBA), the
project involves collecting information from more than 100 regions of the mouse brain, and linking them to features believed to be common to mammalian nervous systems in general.