Sentences with phrase «sequencing projects in»

With EC funding, geneticists at Trinity were able to participate in three of the early genome sequencing projects in yeast, Arabidopsis, and Bacillus subtilis.

The 100,000 Genomes Project, is the first major large - scale whole genome sequencing project in the world.

In a large - scale sequencing project in approximately 200 pedigrees with suspected X-linked intellectual disability, two protein - truncating mutations in SLC9A6 were found [5].

The maize reference genome and the haplotype map are published online today ahead of print in the journal Science, in addition to a supplementary poster on the maize genome placing the plant and the sequencing project in historical and cultural perspective.

Not exact matches

«In Phase two we'll sit down and go through this with your team and decide on priorities and sequencing of steps, and agree on a project timeline that fits both your needs and our current client load.

In June 2000 he and Craig Venter of the rival commercial project were able jointly to announce the entire sequencing of the human genome.

The completed sequencing of the seven wild rice varieties is a significant progress to drive further genome evolution and domestication,» explained Dr. Rod Wing, leader of the International Oryza Map Alignment Project (IOMAP), an AXA Chair holder at the International Rice Research Institute, Professor at the University of Arizona, and one of the lead scientists in the study.

Faircloth hopes his team will not use any of the samples used in the B10K project, as having DNA sequence from multiple individuals of the same species can be useful.

The Human Genome Project, which sequenced the 3 billion pairs of nucleotide bases in human DNA, was a piece of cake in comparison: Epigenetic markers and patterns are different in every tissue type in the human body and also change over time.

When the team looked for it in data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that it was present in 73 per cent of all 466 faecal sProject, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that it was present in 73 per cent of all 466 faecal sproject to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that it was present in 73 per cent of all 466 faecal samples.

Erwin compares the endeavor to the Human Genome Project, in which scientists mapped the sequence of our genes.

Project members also catalogued sequences that mark areas where DNA unwinds from the round histone proteins that maintain the shape of chromosomes, allowing the cell's transcription machinery to activate genes in those areas.

To help uncover those functions and identify other important sequences, 35 research groups joined forces in 2003 to create the encyclopedia of DNA elements (ENCODE) project.

Scientists and clinicians hope that the lessons learned in these initial large - scale clinical sequencing projects will inform genomic medicine as it reaches more patients and moves to other specialties, such as neurology and cardiology, and even to routine health care.

The researchers believed that mapping techniques commonly used by the larger projects, while efficient, limited their ability to find unique sequences among all the copies and duplications in this region.

That work is coming, says Lewin, as a project at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is sequencing 150 more mammals.

Along the way, the hope is that the project will transform the technology of neuroscience — in the same way that the Human Genome Project (HGP) helped take genome - sequencing from pipe dream to everyday reality — and ultimately revolutionise our understanding of brain fuproject will transform the technology of neuroscience — in the same way that the Human Genome Project (HGP) helped take genome - sequencing from pipe dream to everyday reality — and ultimately revolutionise our understanding of brain fuProject (HGP) helped take genome - sequencing from pipe dream to everyday reality — and ultimately revolutionise our understanding of brain function.

The diversity of genome amplification options underscores the importance of having a clear experimental question in mind before starting a single - cell sequencing project.

The Duke study is just one of many projects begun in the past five years that use genetic sequencing to explore how the diversity of the microbiome impacts our health.

The pilot project tested a dozen or so of the most commonly used gene promoters (regions of DNA that facilitate gene transcription) and segments of DNA that encode ribosome - binding sites (sequences of messenger RNA that control protein translation) to determine whether they behave consistently in different cellular contexts.

In one of their most challenging human DNA projects to date — no British individual this old has ever had their genome sequenced — the Natural History Museum's ancient DNA lab's Professor Ian Barnes and Dr Selina Brace carried out the first ever full reading of Cheddar Man's DNA.

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..

«When we started this project nearly two decades ago, there was no technology to sequence genomes of that size and complexity,» said Jan Dvorak, a leader of the project and professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis.

Before the consortium came together, he had participated in sequencing the genomes of two vocal learners, a songbird and a parrot, but he knew he couldn't do all of the additional sequencing and analysis work that would be required to identify genes related to vocal learning — not by himself, at least — so he teamed up with Genome 10K, a project aiming to collect genomes for 10,000 vertebrate species.

Since its launch in 2010, the project has sequenced the complete normal and cancer genomes of 700 young cancer patients with some of the most aggressive and least understood cancers.

The expansive, sun - streaked laboratory sits above the university's renowned gene - sequencing center, which proved a major player in powering the Human Genome Project.

The goal of the human genome project was to use DNA sequencing to reveal all three billion DNA letters in our chromosomes and find all our genes.

When the researchers expanded their search to include all the data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that the same virus was present in 73 per cent of all 466 human faecal sProject, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that the same virus was present in 73 per cent of all 466 human faecal sproject to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that the same virus was present in 73 per cent of all 466 human faecal samples.

China becomes fern - happy Two weeks ago, the Beijing Genomics Institute, or BGI, owner of the most sophisticated sequencing platforms in the world, agreed to take on Pryer's project to fund the mapping of the Azolla genome.

Along the way he led BGI, which moved to Shenzhen in 2007, into some of its most ambitious projects, including an ongoing effort to sequence 10,500 bird genomes.

Results from the Sequencing the Legends project are still being processed but indicate that the Bos taurus genes lurking in the Brahman genome may have been selected for important production traits associated with fertility, growth and temperament.

Work is expected to begin as soon as participants at genome centers in the United States and abroad agree on some ground rules for the project, perhaps the most unwieldy collaboration since the sequencing of the human genome.

In fact two projects, a public effort and a private venture, had competed to capture the sequence.

«Unlocking the genetic secrets of legendary bulls: Project to sequence genomes of top Brahman bulls in Australia.»

While sifting through metagenomic sequence datasets for a U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Community Science Program project, researchers identified genome sequences typically found in giant viruses.

AquaGen is another industrial partner in the genome project that is looking forward to utilising the sequenced genome.

In the largest measles genomics project to date, the scientists performed DNA sequencing for 27 different measles viruses.

V: I learned of the genome project in the mid-1980s, well after my lab was the first in the world to do automated DNA sequencing.

On 20 December 2013, a paper by the Amborella Genome Sequencing Project that includes a full description of the analyses performed by the project, as well as implications for flowering plant research, will be published in the journal SProject that includes a full description of the analyses performed by the project, as well as implications for flowering plant research, will be published in the journal Sproject, as well as implications for flowering plant research, will be published in the journal Science.

Indeed, according to a report last year by the research and management organization Battelle, «In 2010 alone, the human genome sequencing projects and associated genomics research and industry activity directly and indirectly generated $ 67 billion in U.S. economic output and supported 310,000 jobs that produced $ 20 billion in personal income.&raquIn 2010 alone, the human genome sequencing projects and associated genomics research and industry activity directly and indirectly generated $ 67 billion in U.S. economic output and supported 310,000 jobs that produced $ 20 billion in personal income.&raquin U.S. economic output and supported 310,000 jobs that produced $ 20 billion in personal income.&raquin personal income.»

So, there is now over 800 flu sequences that have emerged from that project in just the last year and I expect that number to more than double in the next year.

With the completion of the first phase of the Human Genome Project in 2000, and the advent of sequencing technologies that can detect gene variations such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), for the first time scientists have the tools in hand to find the key immune genes and genetic networks that play roles in vaccine response.

We further demonstrate the feasibility of this technique by tracing back with high probability the identities of multiple participants in public sequencing projects.

«Having the genome sequence is like having part of the instruction manual,» says study author Richard Wilson of Washington University in Saint Louis (W.U.), echoing the famous 2000 comment of then Human Genome Project leader Francis Collins, who called knowledge of our genome a «glimpse of our instruction book.»

In addition to taking on the T. rex project, Asara also succeeded in wresting 76 collagen sequences from a slightly younger find — mastodon bone fragments with soft tissue estimated to be 160,000 to 600,000 years olIn addition to taking on the T. rex project, Asara also succeeded in wresting 76 collagen sequences from a slightly younger find — mastodon bone fragments with soft tissue estimated to be 160,000 to 600,000 years olin wresting 76 collagen sequences from a slightly younger find — mastodon bone fragments with soft tissue estimated to be 160,000 to 600,000 years old.

Ruiz - Trillo and his team sequenced the Capsaspora genome in an earlier project and discovered that the amoeba contained many genes that, in animals, are related to multicellular functions.

The resulting data set consisted of 45 avian genomes sequenced in part for this project [48 when including previously published species (40 — 42)-RSB- and three nonavian reptiles [American alligator, green sea turtle, and green anole lizard (43)-RSB-(table S1), with details reported in (44 — 52).

For the Harvard Mars project, Ruvkun and colleagues (including former postdoc Michael Finney, co-founder of MJ Research, a major manufacturer of PCR machines) are designing a small, robotic PCR detector that would perform onsite amplification and sequencing of any DNA present in extraterrestrial dirt.

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

In April researchers reported sequencing the entire genome of DNA pioneer James Watson, a project that took only two months and cost less than $ 1 million.