Sentences with phrase «genomes as a pilot project»
Already, Rothberg says they've done 30 centenarian genomes as a pilot project.
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Scientists are also encouraged to propose their own pilot projects to serve as stepping stones, although many participants are careful to note that these projects are valuable regardless of whether the group decides to reach for the ultimate goal of synthesizing a human genome.
Francis Collins, the physician - scientist perhaps best known for piloting the Human Genome Project, is stepping down as director of the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in Bethesda, Maryland.
A significant portion of NHGRI's medical sequencing program will be used for The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), which was launched in December 2005 as a $ 100 million, collaborative three - year pilot project between NHGRI and NCI.
«Our project will serve as a pilot for the full - scale mapping of functional regulatory elements in the human genome,» said program director Kevin White, PhD, the James and Karen Frank Family Professor in the departments of Human Genetics and Ecology & Evolution, and Director of the Institute for Genomics & Systems Biology at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory.