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15 human genomes each week

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 02, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 2

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has sequenced the equivalent of 300 human genomes in just over six months. The Institute has just reached the staggering total of 1,000,000,000,000 letters of genetic code that will be ...


Sequencing thousand and one genomes

Sequencing thousand and one genomes

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created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany, reported the completion of the first genomes of wild strains of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. ...





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Johns Hopkins to participate in 1000 Genomes Project

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 22, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Researchers at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine (IGM) at Johns Hopkins will join other national and international scientists in the 1000 Genomes Project, an ambitious effort that will involve sequencing ...


Complete Genomics publishes in Science on low-cost sequencing of 3 human genomes

Complete Genomics reports low-cost sequencing of 3 human genomes

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Complete Genomics, a third-generation human genome sequencing company, today announced publication of a report in the journal Science describing its proprietary DNA sequencing platform, including analysis of seq ...


DNA patterns of microbes

DNA patterns of microbes

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The genomes or DNA of microbes contain defined DNA patterns called genome signatures. Such signatures may be used to establish relationships and to search for DNA from viruses or other organisms ...


On the origin of subspecies

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created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists have sequenced over seventy strains of yeast, the greatest number of genomes for any species.


New portal for plant genomics will support research into improved crops

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created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Today sees the launch of Ensembl Plants - a freely available web resource for plant genomics research - by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), in partnership with the ...


8 new human genome projects offer large-scale picture of genetic difference

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created Apr 30, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

A nationwide consortium led by the University of Washington in Seattle has completed the first sequence-based map of structural variations in the human genome, giving scientists an overall picture of the large-scale differences ...


3 sequencing companies join 1000 Genomes Project

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created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Leaders of the 1000 Genomes Project announced today that three firms that have pioneered development of new sequencing technologies have joined the international effort to build the most detailed map to date of human genetic ...


Software developed by Boston College lab delivers speed and accuracy to genome research

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created Mar 28, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

It took a global corps of scientists approximately $500 million and 13 years to identify the more than 35,000 genes of the human genome. Five years later, Boston College Biologist Gabor Marth and his research team have developed ...


Petascale computing tools could provide deeper insight into genomic evolution

Petascale computing tools could provide deeper insight into genomic evolution

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing have opened up the possibility of determining how living things are related by analyzing the ways in which their genes have been rearranged on chromosomes. ...


DNA chunks, chimps and humans

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created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 1

Researchers have carried out the largest study of differences between human and chimpanzee genomes, identifying regions that have been duplicated or lost during evolution of the two lineages. The study, published in Genome Re ...



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