Sentences with phrase «u.s. sequencing effort»

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The U.S. National Science Foundation — funded effort will tap extensive museum collections as much as possible, instead of freshly caught bird samples, and will sequence about 5000 short pieces of the DNA, focusing on regions that are very highly conserved among all birds.

The 15 AACR scientists, who were already in Washington, D.C., to meet with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on genetic testing for cancer patients, tossed around ideas including expanding NCI's tumor genome - sequencing efforts and getting the government to cover the costs of genomic tumor profiling.

PHUKET, THAILAND — Three U.S. agencies will award grants totaling $ 12.3 million to help speed an international effort to sequence the rice genome.

After all, the Human Genome Project, a massive effort of the National Institutes of Health and U.S. Department of Energy to map our complete genetic sequence, took just 13 years — 1990 to 2003.

«What's important about the maize project,» says W. Richard McCombie, Ph.D., CSHL Professor, co-principal investigator on the maize genome project, and a pioneer in genome sequencing efforts, «is that it provides a reference DNA sequence for the most important agricultural crop in the U.S., making it much easier for people to look at the many variants of different strains or «accessions» of maize.»

The Core Knowledge Sequence represents our best effort to identify and describe the specific core of shared knowledge that all children should learn in U.S. schools.