Sentences with phrase «sequencing efforts»

We expanded on our genome sequencing efforts to include efforts in whole genome gene expression analysis and functional analysis of genome variation.

They showed an exponential growth in the power of technology, from the speed of DNA sequencing efforts to the power of computers to the growth of the Internet.

Now comes a second part of the study, something that sets it apart from other cancer sequencing efforts.

But the enormous size of the pine's genome had been an obstacle to sequencing efforts until recently.

He has helped generate and interpret mountains of data through microbial gene sequencing efforts, showing how microbes influence human well - being.

Recently, investigators undertook whole genome sequencing efforts for 36 California condors that include the entire genetic diversity of the species and provides a dataset that will allow identification of markers linked to the recessive lethal disease.

In the meantime, we are in the midst of large - scale sequencing efforts for the Centers for Complex Disease Genomics (CCDG), Alzheimers Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP), and Gabriella Miller Kids First (GMKF) initiatives.

It will focus its initial clinical sequencing efforts on cancer, teaming up with the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego to sequence the genomes of every patient who is treated there, as well as perform a full genome sequence on their tumors.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientist Robert Martienssen was instrumental in organizing the international sequencing effort at its outset in 1996, and played a major role in interpreting the chromosome 4 results.

«This study demonstrates the benefit of broad - based sequencing efforts in personalized oncology.

«Their performance has been remarkable,» says Richard Gibbs, who heads the public sequencing effort at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

The international sequencing effort led from Max Planck chose a bonobo named Ulindi from the Leipzig Zoo as its subject, partly because she was a female (the chimp genome was of a male).

When sequencing efforts did not yield any recurring genetic alterations, the University of Michigan - led team looked at epigenetics, in particular, changes in histone and DNA methylation, processes that regulate gene expression.

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.

Carr is leading one of the NASA sequencing efforts, and Johnson's technique could increase such a tool's usefulness.

Morgan fears that a commercial sequencing effort will deny researchers unfettered access to sequence data.

«Having collected more than 1500 ancient dogs and wolves over the past few years, our lab has begun our next - generation sequencing effort.»

Andre Rosenthal, who coordinates Germany's planned genomic sequencing effort, left the meeting hopeful that the policy will be reversed for these data.

Following perhaps the largest DNA sequencing effort ever undertaken for ocean science, a multinational team of scientists now reports that plankton life in the seas is far more diverse than suspected.

And the technique will likely grow even more powerful as metagenome sequencing efforts proceed.

In the latest sequencing effort, Willerslev and researchers from Denmark, China, and the United States analyzed the genomes of 80 polar bears from Greenland and 10 brown bears from North America and Europe.

Overall, this is a very exciting time for cancer research, as global sequencing efforts mean we are advancing towards precision oncology.»

«Sequencing efforts miss DNA crucial to bacteria's disease causing power.»

This mumps sequencing effort builds on our group's past experiences working together with long - term collaborators and forming partnerships with new ones to quickly generate and share virus genome data during major outbreaks, especially the 2014 - 15 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the 2015 - 16 Zika outbreak in the Americas.

Large - scale cancer sequencing efforts such as TCGA and ICGC have catalogued somatic mutations in a variety of common cancer types.

Paul Lasko and Beat Suter, at McGill University, are extending the work of the Wright laboratory (Stathakis et al., 1995) in the genetic and molecular analysis of a similarly sized genomic segment comprising polytene regions 37 and 38 and this will be an early target for the BDGP sequencing efforts.

The reasons for this are complex, and not the focus of this post, but I think we can all agree that it's vital to seek out and include samples from diverse ancestries as large - scale sequencing efforts move forward.

Large - scale sequencing efforts like the 1,000 Genomes Project and The Cancer Genome Atlas now consider BAM the standard format for data exchange.

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

The U.S. sequencing effort is being funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

A massive genetic sequencing effort on seed - bank holdings to document what exists in the collections, to strategically target experiments to evaluate what traits a plant has (called phenotyping) and to begin to predict plant performance.

Now, a greater effort to understand its ecological and population history has been made possible by the first, whole - scale genome sequencing efforts of 57 platypuses across Eastern Australia and Tasmania.

Sequencing efforts in the past few years have pushed the number closer to 1,000 (ref.

As highlighted in the final print issue of Genome Technology, investigators leading clinical sequencing efforts have faced ethical dilemmas already, such as the return of genetic information to family members in the event that a patient dies.

The international sequencing effort was led by Max Planck composed of multiple teams including 454 Life Sciences in Branford, Connecticut.

«Intensive DNA sequencing efforts to find the genetic «drivers» of metastasis, which is what kills patients in up to 80 percent of cases, have thus far been disappointing, to say the least,» he said.

Fifteen teams analyzed nearly 500 patients» tumors for genetic aberrations and sequenced the protein - coding DNA of 316 samples — by far the largest cancer sequencing effort to date.

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.

The 15 AACR scientists, who were already in Washington, D.C., to meet with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on genetic testing for cancer patients, tossed around ideas including expanding NCI's tumor genome - sequencing efforts and getting the government to cover the costs of genomic tumor profiling.

The largest population genome sequencing effort to date is published in Nature.

The sequencing efforts generated more than 5 million markers, from the samples, representing more than 80 fungal types, or genera.

«The problem with this is wasted DNA sequencing effort.

When it is complete in 2008, EarthScope's web of instruments will provide public data for geoscience, not unlike the way the human genome sequencing effort has for biology.

Figueroa co-led the sequencing effort for the oat crown rust fungus P. coronata f. sp. avenae along with Shahryar Kianian, research leader at the USDA - ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory and adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota.

Large - scale genome sequencing efforts, like the Human Microbiome Project, have focused on the community of microorganisms that live in the human gut.

The sequencing effort was a collaboration among IRRI; BGI in Shenzhen, China; and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing.

This pattern is consistent with the results of the sequencing efforts for rice centromeres 4 and 8 as well as other rice [4] and maize [11] BACs that contain centromeric satellite sequence.