Sentences with phrase «entire genome sequences of»

We are also interested in the analyses that are beginning to emerge following the availability of the entire genome sequences of several organisms.

Meanwhile, another team — reporting in Science Express today — has described the entire genome sequences of a mother and father (both healthy) and their two children, both of whom have two inherited disorders: Miller syndrome and primary ciliary dyskinesia.

To retrace the history of the disease, an international team of scientists, led by Johannes Krause from Tübingen University and Stewart Cole from EPFL Lausanne, have reconstructed entire genome sequences of M. leprae bacteria from five medieval skeletons that were excavated in Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom as well as seven biopsy samples from modern patients.

Having the entire genome sequence of any organism accelerates the pace of biological research.

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The entire genome of the tiny nematode (Caenorhabditis elegans) also has been sequenced as a ta - ngen = tial study to the human genome project.

In June 2000 he and Craig Venter of the rival commercial project were able jointly to announce the entire sequencing of the human genome.

CSIRO is part of an international consortium to sequence the entire genome of sugarcane.

«To better understand the functions of the genome, it would be useful to have the entire catalog of all the RNA molecules that interact with DNA, and what sequences they interact with.

New DNA recovery and sequencing technology is at last allowing scientists to assemble entire genomes of ancient scourges — and elusive modern ones

The human genome contains millions of sequences derived from so - called transposable elements, genetic units that «jump» around the entire genome.

A 2010 study led by Hood in collaboration with the University of Washington and the University of Utah sequenced the entire genomes of four family members.

In the new study, the researchers sequenced the entire genome of mice that had undergone CRISPR gene editing in the team's previous study and looked for all mutations, including those that only altered a single nucleotide.

A decade ago, sequencing the dna in a person's entire genome cost up to $ 1 billion, a price so prohibitive that only a few genetics pioneers had the honor of having it done.

Now Pääbo and his colleagues have devised a new method of genetic analysis that allowed them to reconstruct the entire Denisovan genome with nearly all of the genome sequenced approximately 30 times over akin to what we can do for modern humans.

By sequencing the entire genome of 30 African honeybees, the research team has been able to study recombination at a level of detail not previously possible.

If all this sounds wildly implausible, bear in mind that the idea of sequencing an entire human genome in days seemed nigh on impossible just a few years ago.

George Church, another Harvard geneticist, is working to speed up the sequencing and analysis of a person's entire genome.

His team synthesised small pieces of DNA with a specific sequence, and then joined them together to create an entire genome.

Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of Chlamydia trachomatis, the enigmatic bacterium that's the leading cause of venereal disease in the United States.

Roughly speaking, ChIP sequencing can be compared to a microscope, which enables us to observe the presence of different cell components in the entire genome at a given time.

Aedes has many repetitive sequences and transposable elements (sections that can wander freely within the genome), making it difficult to accurately reassemble the entire set of DNA sequences.

The scientists obtained fragments of the viral genetic material from the insect samples and joined these fragments together like a puzzle, thus reconstructing the entire genome sequence.

Sequencing of a patient's entire genome or exome — the part of the genome used to build proteins — now offers an effective strategy to pinpoint culprit mutations and make an accurate diagnosis.

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute, which receives strategic funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, were part of a global team that has decoded the genome sequence — the entire genetic make - up — of domestic sheep for the first time.

«Previous studies have given us a broad set of benchmarks, including the sequence of the entire genome, which makes Candida albicans a great subject for study in microgravity because we have extensive information to compare it to.»

In order to locate all gene switches, the Freiburg research team used modern sequencing methods to examine the entire genome — DNA, epigenetic markers and RNA — during the development, maturation and disease of human cardiac muscle cells.

When James Watson, co-discoverer of the double - helix structure of DNA, had his entire genome sequenced in 2007 it cost around $ 1 million.

For the first time last year, Sandia microbiologists studying infectious diseases sequenced the entire genome of a Klebsiella pneumoniae strain that encodes New Delhi metallo - beta - lactamase (NDM - 1).

A genetic analysis, which included sequencing the entire genome of Cephalotus, found strong evidence that during their evolution into carnivores, each of these plants co-opted many of the same ancient proteins to create enzymes for digesting prey.

They sequenced the entire nuclear genome of this species, and identified all of the genes within that genome that code for biological functions.

If mutations occur at random over the entire sequence of a species» genome, how can a complex organ such as an eye evolve?

Powered by advances in sequencing technology, the field of ancient DNA has succeeded beyond all expectations, helping researchers to retrieve the entire genomes of Neandertals and other kinds of ancient humans and transforming the picture of human evolution.

Researchers used various DNA sequencing machines to produce very small pieces of the entire genome, Gmitter said.

First, iCAGES analyzes the patient's entire genome, comparing it to the genomic sequence of the patient's tumor to identify possible cancer - causing variants.

In April researchers reported sequencing the entire genome of DNA pioneer James Watson, a project that took only two months and cost less than $ 1 million.

Now, thanks to cheap genome sequencing, deCODE has sequenced the entire genomes of 2636 Icelanders and combed them for much rarer mutations.

The first study to sequence and analyze the entire genome of a HeLa cell line, along with access to its sequence data, has been published Aug. 7 in its final version, by G3: Genes Genomes Genetics, an open - access, scientific journal of the Genetics Society of America.

The researchers sequenced the entire genome of C. amylolentus, mapping the location of all the genes as well as the centromeres on each of the organism's 14 chromosomes.

His automated genome - sequencing machine is driving the price of mapping a person's entire genetic code down toward $ 1,000, almost unbelievably cheap considering that, less than a decade ago, the government - funded Human Genome Project spent roughly $ 3 billion to sequence a single ggenome - sequencing machine is driving the price of mapping a person's entire genetic code down toward $ 1,000, almost unbelievably cheap considering that, less than a decade ago, the government - funded Human Genome Project spent roughly $ 3 billion to sequence a single gGenome Project spent roughly $ 3 billion to sequence a single genomegenome.

«Even though we've sequenced the entire genome of Plasmodium falciparum, half of it still remains functionally uncharacterized.

The third is a method implemented by Reich for reading the genetic codes of 1.2 million carefully chosen variable parts of DNA (known as single nucleotide polymorphisms) rather than having to sequence entire genomes.

His group is now sequencing the entire Neandertal genome and in the 21 August issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes the steps taken over the past year to lessen the odds of contamination.

In a few years prenatal whole - genome sequencing will provide the entire genetic code of an unborn fetus, alerting parents of possible genetic diseases their child may have or develop.

A research team from Uppsala University has sequenced the entire genomes of a sample of Cape bees and compared them with other populations of honeybees to find out the genetic mechanisms behind their asexual reproduction.

As part of a long - standing effort to study the rampant drug - resistant TB in Samara, a region of Russia about 1,000 kilometers southeast of Moscow, researchers collected TB isolates from 2,348 patients and sequenced the entire genomes of 1,000 of them.

Now, Timothy Read at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland, and colleagues have sequenced the entire Florida strain and compared it to the genome of the so - called Porton strain.

Using a technique called whole - genome random sequencing, a TIGR team mapped the entire two - million - gene sequence of Thermotoga maritima, a bacterium first plucked from hot geothermal springs in Vulcano, Italy.

As the cost of sequencing an entire genome drops, the day will soon arrive when documenting a full record of a patient's DNA may become as routine as a cholesterol test.

The human genome contains about 3 billion base pairs, but only about 2 percent of these base pairs represent protein - coding genes, meaning that whole - exome sequencing measures the genetic alterations focused on a small but very important fraction of the genome (as opposed to techniques of whole genome sequencing, which measures every nucleotide across the entire genome, regardless of whether these genes are expressed or silent).

Chaput's method of studying such sequences on a genome - wide scale involves first generating a DNA library of the entire human genome.