Sentences with phrase «from sequencing projects»

Now, early results from sequencing projects of the enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) strain appear to confirm that a never - before - seen hybrid, combining the worst of several bacterial strains, is causing the havoc.

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The 3,000 Rice Genomes Project (3K RGP) is a collaborative, international research program that has sequenced 3,024 rice varieties from 89 countries.

So even though some of the leaders of the 2014 avian tree effort launched B10K, a project aiming to eventually sequence the whole genomes of all 10,560 bird species and from there build «the grand tree,» some bird researchers decided not to wait.

Faircloth hopes his team will not use any of the samples used in the B10K project, as having DNA sequence from multiple individuals of the same species can be useful.

When the team looked for it in data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that it was present in 73 per cent of all 466 faecal sProject, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that it was present in 73 per cent of all 466 faecal sproject to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that it was present in 73 per cent of all 466 faecal samples.

Project members also catalogued sequences that mark areas where DNA unwinds from the round histone proteins that maintain the shape of chromosomes, allowing the cell's transcription machinery to activate genes in those areas.

The human (and all the other) genome projects were predicated on the reasonable assumption that spelling out the full sequence of genes would reveal the source of that diversity of form and attributes that so readily distinguish worm from fly, mouse, chimp and human.

Along the way, the hope is that the project will transform the technology of neuroscience — in the same way that the Human Genome Project (HGP) helped take genome - sequencing from pipe dream to everyday reality — and ultimately revolutionise our understanding of brain fuproject will transform the technology of neuroscience — in the same way that the Human Genome Project (HGP) helped take genome - sequencing from pipe dream to everyday reality — and ultimately revolutionise our understanding of brain fuProject (HGP) helped take genome - sequencing from pipe dream to everyday reality — and ultimately revolutionise our understanding of brain function.

Wellcome Trust managers and sequencing researchers from the Sanger Centre endorsed the publicly funded genome project's approach at a meeting this week.

Project leader Dr Richard Buggs from QMUL's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences said: «This ash tree genome sequence lays the foundations for accelerated breeding of ash trees with resistance to ash dieback.

When the researchers expanded their search to include all the data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that the same virus was present in 73 per cent of all 466 human faecal sProject, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that the same virus was present in 73 per cent of all 466 human faecal sproject to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that the same virus was present in 73 per cent of all 466 human faecal samples.

Results from the Sequencing the Legends project are still being processed but indicate that the Bos taurus genes lurking in the Brahman genome may have been selected for important production traits associated with fertility, growth and temperament.

For one such project, the team developed a new software tool called GppFst that allows researchers to differentiate genetic drift — a neutral process whereby genes and gene sequences naturally change due to random mating within a population — from genetic variations that are indicative of evolutionary changes caused by natural selection.

Darwin's declared strategy was to capture the sequence information streaming from the genome project and apply it to the development of new drugs.

The goals of these hard - core sequencing projects range from studying climate change, to classifying — or even resurrecting — extinct species, to improving cancer diagnosis.

So, there is now over 800 flu sequences that have emerged from that project in just the last year and I expect that number to more than double in the next year.

Bioinformatics tries to solve biological problems by using computers to make sense of the large amounts of data that arise from sequencing and other large - scale projects.

In addition to taking on the T. rex project, Asara also succeeded in wresting 76 collagen sequences from a slightly younger find — mastodon bone fragments with soft tissue estimated to be 160,000 to 600,000 years old.

Proposals for the project have come from John Sulston, who heads a prestigious Anglo - American project to sequence the genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans at the MRC's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

But researchers report today that they've figured out how to predict the structures of hundreds of unmapped proteins by gleaning insights from one of the strangest of places: «metagenomics» projects that sequence DNA from broad swaths of microbes in the soils and seas.

Soon, the mouse — which from a genetic point of view is nearly human — will join this ship: its genome is sought in another race between the publicly funded mouse genome sequencing project and Celera.

Yet, «these studies using HeLa cells had to rely on information from the «reference» sequence produced by the Human Genome Project, even though there was evidence that the genomes of HeLa cell lines were probably quite different,» said Lars Steinmetz, Ph.D., who led the G3 study.

The study, led by Dr Chris Tyler - Smith of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, analysed sequence differences between the Y chromosomes of more than 1200 men from 26 populations around the world using data generated by the 1000 Genomes Project.

«Tim and I were able to work very closely in all the steps of the project from the experimental design in the wet lab to the final analysis of the results; the major challenge was how to handle the very large number of barley samples and for this we designed a novel approach to sequencing that exploited deep results in combinatorics,» Lonardi said.

As a step toward boosting rice production to meet a projected 25 % increase in demand by 2030, researchers from three Asian institutions today announced the release of the genetic sequences of 3000 rice lines.

«As that genome sequence was from a female, the findings of the bovine Y chromosome study is a significant contribution to the completion of the bovine — male and female — genome project.»

The Human Microbiome Project, funded by the US National Institutes of Health, has now used next - generation DNA sequencing technology to study these microbes straight from the source.

Xuanmin Guang, project manager from BGI, said, «Minke whale is the first marine mammal that has been sequenced with such high - depth genome coverage.

That money, most of it from federal grants through the Human Genome Project, has paid for the first rough guides to the 3 billion nucleotides in human DNA: maps studded with thousands of landmarks called «sequence tagged sites» (Science, 25 October 1996, p. 540).

Alexis Borisy, CEO of Foundation Medicine, a cancer diagnostics company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that studies how genetics can be translated into therapies, says that the study is «an excellent example of a coming wave of information from cancer genomes» that he expects to be sequenced in the future through the Cancer Genome Atlas and other projects.

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The newest study from the Autism Speaks MSSNG project — the world's largest autism genome sequencing program — identified an additional 18 gene variations that appear to increase the risk of autism.

Then they checked blood samples against half a million known variations in DNA sequences, or single - nucleotide polymorphisms, which recently were identified by the International HapMap Project that looked for differences in the genomes of people from many populations.

His team is now trying to get some idea by collecting information and different strains via existing global and European Union research projects that compile genetic sequences from pathogens.

With crowdfunded projects such as American Gut, which already has thousands of participants who have had their microbiomes sequenced, and studies of people whose lives are very different from modern Western civilization, such as the Hadza of Tanzania, Yanomami of Venezuela and Matsés of Peru, we may be able to replenish our ancestral microbes and discover new ones that help to maintain health for individuals or entire populations.

Other medical sequencing projects will use DNA sequencing to: discover new genes that are involved in common diseases; identify the genes responsible for dozens of relatively rare, single - gene (autosomal Mendelian) diseases; sequence all of the genes on the X chromosome from affected individuals to identify those involved in sex - linked diseases; and survey the range of variants in genes known to contribute to certain common diseases.

For instance, the Human Microbiome Project (HMP)(Turnbaugh et al, 2007; Peterson et al, 2009; Huttenhower et al, 2012) and MetaHIT (Qin et al, 2010) have generated maps of bacterial species abundances throughout the human body, reference genomes, and catalogs of more than 100 million microbial genes assembled from shotgun sequencing of in vivo communities.

Holly Tabor et al analyzed de-identified exome data from 6,517 individuals obtained from NHLBI's Exome Sequencing Project (ESP).

The large volume of sequence data from novel organisms generated by metagenomic projects has triggered the development of specialized databases and tools focused on particular groups of organisms or data types.

The goals of the project are as follows: (1) to shotgun sequence the C. murisgenome to 8X coverage; (2) to sequence 20,000 clones from a C. muris cDNA library to provide gene prediction training and verification data; and (3) to manually annotate the C. muris genome sequence in comparison with the genome sequence data for C. parvum and C. hominis.

My first post in 2015 was uncannily prescient: it reviewed a study that uncover rare variants associated with myocardial infarction using exome data from NHLBI's Exome Sequencing Project (ESP).

A research project launched today will blend the muscle of a huge Chinese genome sequencing center with the funding prowess and ambition of a high - profile American advocacy group, to create the world's largest library of sequenced genomes from people with autism.

The scientists used data from the UK10K Project — a massive, whole ‐ genome sequence ‐ based resource of the general European population; the NIH - funded 1000 Genomes Project, one of the world's earliest efforts to sequence the genomes of a large number of people; and data from several other studies.

By conducting an RNA - sequencing experiment of 103 matched tumour and normal colon mucosa samples from Danish CRC patients, 90 of which were germline - genotyped, researchers from the collaborative European project SYSCOL show that both inherited and acquired mutations in non-coding regions of the genome also contribute to cancer development and progression (Linda Koch, Nature Reviews Genetics).

Here, we describe the results obtained from our current long read sequencing project of 100 Icelanders with Oxford Nanopore technology.

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In the first phase of the project, SIGMA scientists sequenced and characterized more than 10,000 tissue samples from Mexican and Mexican Americans.

If you use sequence data from any of the other Pseudomonas genome sequences, please acknowledge the appropriate genome project and genome sequence publication

«These projects span an impressive spectrum of novel technologies - from sequencing by synthesis to nanopore technology.

NIH - NIAID has funded this genome project to sequence nine phenotypically characterized strains of B. pseudomallei, as well as 25 B. pseudomalleibacteriophage genomes isolated from 48 different B. pseudomallei strains from various geographic and clinical sources.