"For CARTaGENE to be a success, it must recruit 20,000 people between 40 and 69 years of age." - Dr. Claude Laberge May 18, 2009
This process, called harmonization, brings together many populational genome projects around the world. With harmonization comes the possibility of sharing data for large-scale statistical analysis. (Canada Newswire)
Whos who in the project May 16, 2009
We can see that with the oil palm genome projects in Malaysia, for example. The Malaysian Palm Oil Board has reportedly tied up with South Koreas Macrogen Inc, US-based Orion Genomics LLC and Britains Oxford Gene Technology IP Ltd. Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology Sdn Bhds collaborator is Synthetic Genomics Inc.. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
3-D kidney atlas created for researchers and physicians May 15, 2009
The Atlas is based upon various Genome Projects. The scientists involved in creating the Atlas were pathologists, developmental and molecular biologists as well as geneticists from 14 research groups from non-university institutions, universities and six university clinics. (EurekAlert!)
Genome projects launched for three extreme-environment animals Apr 28, 2009
BGI-Shenzhen, in association with several other research institutes, announced today the launch of three new genome projects that focus on animals living in extreme environments ... These projects will be carried out using Next-generation sequencing technologies, which have already enabled rapid, accurate, and cost effective completion of several other large genome projects at BGI-Shenzhen, including the Panda and the first Asian individual genomes. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Whole-brain Circuit Map Could Reveal What Goes Wrong In Autism, Schizophrenia And Other Brain Disorders Apr 4, 2009
"That will give us about twofold coverage of the entire brain circuit in a first draft, and could be accomplished in two or three years, with cooperation from the neuroscience community. At more robust funding levels, we could attempt 10-fold coverage over, perhaps, a five-year period." In the spirit of genome projects, all data from the proposed program would be made rapidly available over the web to the entire research community. While the immediate focus now is to bring a mouse connectivity... (Science Daily)
Frost & Sullivan: In Vitro Diagnostics Market Mar 23, 2009
The global efforts on various genomic projects, including human and other organisms, continue to provide valuable genetic information and knowledge, thus advancing biotechnology product development, including new drug discoveries and IVD. The latter is more poised to benefit from these government funded genome projects as it does not need complicated functional genomics on these newly identified sequences as required by new drug discoveries. "There is currently a need for an affordable,... (PR Newswire)
Pondering the puzzling platypus Mar 18, 2009
Both the time and money needed to complete genome projects are decreasing as technology improves. "In the future, you'll be able to sequence a genome of platypus size for maybe a million dollars in two months," says Warren. (Science News for Kids)
German Team Maps Genome of Neanderthal Feb 14, 2009
In the meantime, scientists can compare smaller sections of Neanderthal DNA to data from completed genome projects on humans and chimpanzees. Beth Shapiro, an ancient DNA specialist at Penn State University, said placing the three side by side will make it possible to determine what regions of our genome make us uniquely human. (Newsmax)
First draft of Neanderthal genome revealed Feb 13, 2009
In the meantime, scientists can compare smaller sections of Neanderthal DNA to data from completed genome projects on humans and chimpanzees. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Basha High teacher reaches for cutting edge Jul 5, 2007
Genome projects: gene and protein databases. Use of computer databases in biotechnology. (AZCentral -- Business)
Cataloging The Structural Variations In Human Genetics May 11, 2007
It's a lot of work, because it's essentially doing 62 additional human genome projects, he says. Having been involved in the first one, I swore I would never do it again. (Science Daily)
A search engine to identify pathway genes from expression data on multiple organisms May 4, 2007
The completion of several genome projects showed that most genes have not yet been characterized, especially in multicellular organisms. Although most genes have unknown functions, a large collection of data is available describing their transcriptional activities under many different experimental conditions. (BioMed Central)
$1.5 Billion Doesnt Guarantee Good Science Mar 18, 2007
"From a clinical and drug perspective, the cancer-genome project is so shallow it's worthless," says George Gabor Miklos, who has served as a consultant on genome projects, the holy grails of biology for a decade. NIH, he says, has "made an enormous mistake that will cost the taxpayer billions." Scientists from top institutions including the Mayo Clinic, the University of Chicago and Harvard Medical School are weighing in to denounce the project as "high-cost, low-efficiency," "not informative"... (MSNBC -- Technology)
Students Learn Genomics With Joint Genome Institute Scientists UCM, Mar. 06 Mar 7, 2007
The scientists take turns visiting the UC Merced campus to teach procedures involved in genome projects. They do this by working with students on several small projects that illustrate different aspects of genome science, like DNA preparation, library construction, sequencing, genome assembly, gene prediction and annotation. (University of California Newswire, CA)
Peter Pan & Great Value Peanut Butter Salmonella Outbreak Mar 1, 2007
Data from Salmonella genome projects. - The three main serovars of Salmonella enterica are Typhimurium. (SpiritIndia)
