Sentences with phrase «information than our human genome»

Researchers spent nearly four years trying to identify the location of the Sr35 gene in the wheat genome, which contains nearly two times more genetic information than the human genome.

We know that we have outsourced bodily functions to the ecosystem of microbes, predominantly located in our gut — one that contains 150 fold more genetic information than our human genome.

Not exact matches

«Metabolites are more dynamic than the genome and they can give us more information about what makes us human,» says Khaitovich.

Tamayo and team tested REVEALER using The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), the National Institutes of Health's database of genomic information from more than 500 human tumors representing many cancer types.

The human genome — the sum total of hereditary information in a person — contains a lot more than the protein - coding genes teenagers learn about in school, a massive international project has found.

Since scientists first decoded a draft of the human genome more than 15 years ago, many questions have lingered, two of which have been addressed in a major new study co-led by a Princeton University computer scientist: Is it possible, despite the complexity of billions of bits of genetic information and their variations between people, to develop a mechanistic model for how healthy bodies function?

These require grantees to make public on a weekly basis raw information taken directly from sequencing machines — more detailed data than were required from human genome sequencers.

Here we report a public database of common variation in the human genome: more than one million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for which accurate and complete genotypes have been obtained in 269 DNA samples from four populations, including ten 500 - kilobase regions in which essentially all information about common DNA variation has been extracted.

BETHESDA, Md., Thurs., Oct. 14, 2004 - The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced it has awarded more than $ 38 million in grants to spur the development of innovative technologies designed to dramatically reduce the cost of DNA sequencing, a move aimed at broadening the applications of genomic information in medical research and health care.

canSAR contains information on the entire human proteome — the protein equivalent of the human genome - as well as linking to information on more than 1,000 cancer cells lines, used by researchers to study the effect of new drugs in the lab.