Sentences with phrase «human genome sequence»

It eventually took more than a decade, a billion dollars, and international scientists in 20 large sequencing centers around the world to complete the first human genome sequence in 2003.

Ten years ago this month, the first complete human genome sequence was published.

The completion of the draft human genome sequence was announced ten years ago.

The arrangement, he says, is an important first step as human genome sequencing becomes commonplace.

Although nearly 60 percent of those polled said they thought that basic biological science had benefited significantly from human genome sequences, only about 20 percent felt the same was true for clinical medicine.

Since the entire human genome sequencing a decade ago, lots of research efforts have been devoted to understanding genetics of behaviour and cognition.

We have begun a joint program as part of a coordinated international effort to determine a complete human genome sequence.

Rather than laying bare the blueprint of our bodies, that draft human genome sequence was merely a first step.

In the postgenomic era, the availability of human genome sequence for genome - wide analysis has revealed higher - order architectural features (i.e., beyond primary sequence information) that may cause genomic instability and susceptibility to genomic rearrangements.

Kanost and the Kansas State University team prepared and purified the DNA of the tobacco hornworm and sent the samples to the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston, which performed the genome sequencing.

Computational analysis of human genome sequence for the study of gene regulation and rare pediatric disorders

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.

Data published by the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium indicate that somewhere between 113 and 223 genes present in bacteria and in the human genome are absent in well - studied organisms — such as the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans — that lie in between those two evolutionary extremes.

The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium got started a decade ago, when sequencing was in its infancy.

Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

Human genome sequencing provides much more detailed and specific genealogical information.

The Cancer Genome Project uses human genome sequence and mutation detection techniques to find changes in DNA involved in the development of human cancers.

Chromosomes come in two matching sets, one from each parent, but the first human genome sequences published in 2001 (one by Venter, the other by federally funded researchers) were pastiches of both sets from several different individuals.

«With whole human genome sequencing now a reality, we are focusing on studying how human mutations impact health and development in vivo,» Pennacchio said.

Complete Genomics is an established technology leader in whole human genome sequencing based in Mountain View, California.

On 14 March, the two leaders announced that they enthusiastically support the rapid release of human genome sequence data, a principle long advocated by Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), and other scientists in the nonprofit sector.

(Perhaps it makes sense to peg anniversary celebrations to the draft publication, as the final human genome sequence is still being completed seven years after its publication.)

During the earliest days of this millennium, the Rockville, Maryland - based company Celera posed a surprise challenge to the scientists involved in the public human genome sequencing effort and raced them to a tie with a simultaneous publication of a draft sequence in February 2001.

It may do for geoscience what human genome sequencing did for biology

The Archon Genomics X PRIZE presented by MEDCO was established in 2006 by the X PRIZE Foundation in Playa Vista, California, to encourage the rapid development of cheap, accurate human genome sequencing for medical purposes.

Dr. Steinmetz and his team found the genome of the HeLa cell line that they sequenced differs dramatically from a normal human genome sequence.

In the current study, Chaput designed an in vitro selection strategy to identify human genome sequences that initiate cap - independent translation.

He says HGS was getting «diminishing returns» from its investment in TIGR since Venter had steered his outfit into sequencing organisms of little medical importance, and into human genome sequencing, also of limited value for a company like HGS that is interested in genes as drug targets (not untranslated DNA that makes up most of the genome).

In 2012, Dr. Torkamani advanced to Director of Genome Informatics at STSI where he leads various human genome sequencing and other genomics initiatives.

Dr Deloukas heads the Sanger Institute's contribution to the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, a consortium that aims to understand patterns of human genome sequence variation.

Complete Genomics, Inc. is a leading commercial provider of complete human genome sequencing services.

We are grateful to J. Romero - Severson for developing the N. vitripennis BAC library; Stephen Richards and the Baylor Human Genome Sequencing center for sequencing of BAC clones as part of the Nasonia genome project; Rhitoban Raychoudhury, Jen Traggis, Laramy Enders, and Adityarup Chakravorty for assistance with laboratory work; Heinrich Jasper for advice on qPCR; and Claude Desplan for comments on the manuscript.

(23andme currently provides SNP genotyping, not whole genome sequencing, but we're very close to the point where human genome sequencing is cheap and reliable enough to make this possible.)

For regular Blawg Review readers who may not be familiar with DNA Day, the event was established by Congressional resolution in 2003 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the description of the double - helix structure of DNA and to celebrate the publication of the final consensus human genome sequence produced by the Human Genome Project.

Using whole exome sequencing (a next generation test to analyze the exons or coding regions of thousands of genes simultaneously) conducted at the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center, the researchers identified CLP1 mutations in two unrelated families with the disorder.

Over the next year, the company plans to use data from human genomes sequenced with its new machines to develop the statistics needed to evaluate how accurate the data are.

The Human Genome Project, which produced the first full human genome sequence, cost approximately $ 3 billion.

BOSTON — When the draft human genome sequence was completed last year, a computer analysis suggested the number of genes was shockingly small.

The first human genome sequence was published the year that Wood began graduate school, providing strong evidence for evolution.

Complete Genomics offers complete human genome sequencing at two coverage levels.

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.

Science is publishing the sequence created by Celera Genomics of Rockville, Maryland, and Nature is publishing a series of reports by the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium (IHGSC).

«Most of the human genome sequence is now known, but we still don't know what most of these sequences mean,» said Sheng Zhong, bioengineering professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and the study's lead author.

And with the recent unveiling of the human genome sequence — to say nothing of the new drugs that are being tested every day — those working in the patent field are busier than ever.

Human Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

So declared President Bill Clinton in the East Room of the White House on June 26, 2000, at an event held to hail the completion of the first draft assemblies of the human genome sequence by two fierce rivals, the publicly funded international Human Genome Project and its private - sector competitor Celera Genomics of Rockville, Md..

Since the publication of the human genome sequence in 2001, scientists have found that the so - called junk DNA that lies between genes actually carries out many important functions.

«While we still don't have all the answers — being a mere 10 percent of the way into the century with a human genome sequence in hand — we have learned extraordinary things about how the human genome works and how alterations in it confer risk for disease.»