Sentences with phrase «sequencing effort funded»

Then we were off and running for CCDG and another large - scale sequencing effort funded under the Gabriella Miller Kids First (GMKF) program.

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The U.S. National Science Foundation — funded effort will tap extensive museum collections as much as possible, instead of freshly caught bird samples, and will sequence about 5000 short pieces of the DNA, focusing on regions that are very highly conserved among all birds.

A consortium of peanut growers, peanut shellers, brokers and food manufacturing groups provided $ 6 million in funding for the genome sequencing effort through The Peanut Foundation.

His first book related the story of how he led a private effort that raced a government - funded consortium to decipher the DNA sequence that makes up the human genome.

«In addition to funding rice sequencing, the [Thai] government is about to launch an effort that will move on to functional genomics,» says Apichart Vanavichit, a molecular biologist at Thailand's National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Nakorn Pathom, which is helping to sequence chromosome 9.

Participants are enrolled in MSSNG, an effort funded by Google and the nonprofit group Autism Speaks to analyze sequences from 10,000 people.

By better understanding the limitations of genome - wide sequencing, Vogelstein notes, researchers and policymakers might be better able to direct funding and efforts to areas, such as Alzheimer's disease, where a person's genetic profile might have a very real effect on their likelihood of getting the disease.

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.

Sparked from the efforts of the T2D - GENES Consortium (Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Exploration by Next - generation sequencing in multi-Ethnic Samples; T2D - GENES) to aggregate and share results from large - scale T2D sequence and genotype datasets, the prototype T2D KP was built with seed funding from the NIDDK via the T2D - GENES Consortium and the Slim Initiative for Genomic Medicine in the Americas for T2D (SIGMA T2D).

For example, in the mid-1980s, North Carolina created the Teaching Fellows Program, an effort to attract bright young college students into teaching, give them rigorous preparation, and keep them in the profession — at one point, the initiative even funded scholarships for 11,000 new recruits to enroll in revamped teacher education sequences at a number of the state's universities.