Sentences with phrase «complete human sequence»

The researchers on the Human Genome Project had been working toward a complete human sequence since the late 1980s.

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The commercialization of DNA sequencing (the reading of an organism's code) and synthesis (the writing of that code) has accelerated since the mapping of the human genome was completed in 2003.

Dec. 18, 2013 — The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according to University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

She recognizes the «paradox» involved in the thought that something is «always complete yet always growing» (p. 170), which she claims «results from the incapacity of the human mind to conceive non-temporal sequence» (p. 170).

It is the journey of primordial matter through its marvelous sequence of transformations — in the stars, in the earth, in living beings, in human consciousness — toward an ever more complete spiritual - physical intercommunion of the parts with each other, with the whole, and with that numinous presence that has been manifested throughout this entire cosmic - earth - human process.

Taking advantage of the handful of complete human genome sequences now available, the pair looked at how alleles — the two copies of each gene we inherit from our parents — differ within a genome.

In the last decade, however, complete genome - sequence information and increasingly powerful bioinformatic tools have allowed us to generate and analyse draft interactome maps both for humans and for other model organisms.

The Palaeogenomics study conducted by the Human Evolutionary Biology group of the Faculty of Science and Technology, led by Concepción de la Rua, in collaboration with researchers in Sweden, the Netherlands and Romania, has made it possible to retrieve the complete sequence of the mitogenome of the Pestera Muierii woman (PM1) using two teeth.

To reach this conclusion, Pääbo and his team spent years sequencing the complete genome of three Neanderthal bones from the Vindija Cave in Croatia and compared the results with the genomes of five modern humans from southern Africa, West Africa, Papua New Guinea, China, and Western Europe.

The complete sequence of the human X chromosome was published in Nature this week.

The advance might drop the cost of sequencing a complete human genome below $ 1000, which is expected to revolutionize personalized medicine and help usher in a new era of genetic - based diagnostics and medicines.

When they sequenced the complete genomes of the Y. pestis DNA in those seven individuals, the team found that the bacterial genomes from the earliest samples lacked two genes that helped Y. pestis evade the immune systems of humans and fleas during the Black Death.

[Haemophilus influenzae is a bacterium, the first organism to have its entire genome sequenced, which Venter completed in 1995; Drosophila is the common fruit fly, whose genome Venter sequenced as a warm - up to sequencing the human genome.]

In the coming months, plummeting costs will allow gene hunters to start routinely working with complete human genome sequences.

The Human - Induced Earthquake Database (HiQuake), the world's most complete database of earthquake sequences proposed to have been triggered by human activity, now includes approximately 730 entries, according to a report published October 4 in the «Data Mine» column of the journal Seismological Research LetHuman - Induced Earthquake Database (HiQuake), the world's most complete database of earthquake sequences proposed to have been triggered by human activity, now includes approximately 730 entries, according to a report published October 4 in the «Data Mine» column of the journal Seismological Research Lethuman activity, now includes approximately 730 entries, according to a report published October 4 in the «Data Mine» column of the journal Seismological Research Letters.

He pioneered a technique of shotgun DNA sequencing via computers that helped complete the human genome five years ahead of schedule.

The soon - to - be-released complete human genome sequence is just one set of data.

When it is complete in 2008, EarthScope's web of instruments will provide public data for geoscience, not unlike the way the human genome sequencing effort has for biology.

These centers were workhorses in completing the Human Genome Project, and now they will continue to sequence thousands of people's genomes.

Since the sequencing of the human genome was completed in 2003, researchers have been trying to figure out which parts of the genome made some people more likely to develop certain diseases.

Warinner began her graduate studies at Harvard in 2004, just after the sequencing of the human genome was completed and by the time she left in 2010, efforts to survey the human microbiome were in full swing.

The massive genome of the loblolly pine — around seven times bigger than the human genome — is the largest genome sequenced to date and the most complete conifer genome sequence ever published.

Although Arabidopsis's five chromosomes are a fraction of the human set, the completed sequence will represent another scientific milestone as the first detailed genetic record of a plant.

Only when major projects on the human, the mouse, and the rat are complete will the three main government - sponsored sequencing centers take on new projects.

Meanwhile, Memish says he had sent samples to the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, U.K., which sequenced the complete human virus and managed to sequence some small fragments of the camel virus.

Recently, for example, talks broke down between Celera and a group of nonprofit centers over how they might collaborate on completing the sequence of the human genome.

Using the new technology, Complete Genomics» chief scientist Radoje Dramanac estimates that the company will soon be able to sequence a complete human genome in abouComplete Genomics» chief scientist Radoje Dramanac estimates that the company will soon be able to sequence a complete human genome in aboucomplete human genome in about a day.

Almost 10 years to the day after the human genome sequence was completed, a group of researchers has unveiled the first whole genome sequences of prostate tumors.

The price tag of DNA sequencing has been dropping steadily since researchers completed sequencing the first human genome in 2003 at a cost of about $ 3 billion.

Complete Genomics, a Mountain View, California - based biotechnology company last year claimed it would soon be able to sell full human genome sequences for as little as $ 5000 apiece.

Following this path, Rothberg says the company will be able to sequence complete human genomes for $ 1000 by 2013: «It's so scalable... the $ 1000 genome is inevitable.»

In a series of publications today in the British scientific journal Nature, international teams of researchers published a nearly complete sequence of the genetic instructions of «Black 6,» the most common breed of laboratory mouse, and matched its traits with the recently decoded human genome.

With the complete sequence of the human genome a reality, and with a growing body of transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data sets in health and disease, we are now in a unique position in the history of medicine to define human disease precisely, uniquely, and unequivocally, with optimal sensitivity and specificity.

That all changed in the late 1990s, when Craig Venter's private company Celera and the publicly funded Human Genome Project competed to see who could finish the first complete genome sequence.

On June 14, 2013, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. opened the high - tech, high - intensity exhibition Genome: Unlocking Life's Code to celebrate the 10th anniversary of researchers producing the first complete human genome sequence - the genetic blueprint of the human body - in April 2003.

This map provided a template for completing the final assembly of the sequence of the human genome.

G1P [8] rotaviruses are the most prominent genotype in humans, and a total of 157 G1P [8] rotaviruses isolated between 1999 and 2011 were selected from Belgium and Australia and their complete genomes were sequenced.

In 2014 alone, scientists successfully sequenced the mitochondrial genome of a hominin that lived more than 400,000 years ago, 1 exomes from the bones of two Neanderthal individuals more than 40,000 years old, 2 and a nearly complete nuclear genome from a 45,000 - year - old modern human fossil, 3 to name but a few.

With new, faster computing tools to sequence cancer DNA, Vogelstein's team completed 88 of the first 100 whole exomic (that is, all the genes in the genome) sequences of human cancers.

Think about it: on a HiSeq X Ten instrument, we can sequence a complete human genome in less than a week, at a cost that's 0.00001 % of what it took to fund the Human Genome Prohuman genome in less than a week, at a cost that's 0.00001 % of what it took to fund the Human Genome ProHuman Genome Project.

Although the human genome has been decoded before, the sequence is far from complete and varies across populations.

Along with the genomic data gleaned from the sequencing of complete human genomes, HLI will also be generating microbiome data for many of these individuals through its Biome Healthcare division, under the leadership of Karen Nelson, Ph.D..

To date, thousands of complete human genomes and hundreds of thousands exomes have been sequenced.

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.

«One important insight stems from the observation that modern non-Africans and archaic populations share more derived alleles than they should if there was no admixture between them,» Bohlender said, citing that sequencing of complete Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes offers insights into human history.

The human genome has been heralded as the key to personalized medicine, but for the longest time complete sequencing of...

Using cutting - edge techniques enabled by next - generation sequencing, the authors generated complete methylome maps at single nucleotide resolution in a low - passage breast cancer cell line and normal breast tissue (primary human mammary epithelial cells).

The resulting near - complete mitochondrial genome sequence, detailed in this week's Nature, is now the oldest of its kind for any human species.

It's nearly a decade since the completion of the Human Genome Project, (1) which aimed to sequence the complete human geHuman Genome Project, (1) which aimed to sequence the complete human gehuman genome.

Complete Genomics provides free public access to a variety of whole human genome data sets generated from Complete Genomics» sequencing service.