Science news articles about 'genome sequencing project'

  • US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute announces new genome sequencing projects

    ... Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has announced its latest portfolio of DNA sequencing projects ... Rubin, DOE JGI Director. "The range of projects spans important terrestrial contributors to biomass ...
  • New genome sequencing projects announced

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute has announced its 2009 sequencing projects, including pine trees and duck weed.
  • ISU researchers help map first plant-parasitic nematode genome sequence

    ... Iowa State University's contribution to the genome sequence project. Root-knot nematodes are so ... parasitism genes in the root-knot nematode genome. With this sequencing done, Baum thinks researchers ...
  • Platypus genome decoded

    ... , recently completed the first draft sequence and analysis of the platypus genome. It was the first genome sequencing project of a mammal that lays eggs, confirming that platypus DNA also looks like ...
  • DOE Joint Genome Institute completes soybean genome

    ... through this joint DOE/USDA genome sequencing project, researchers everywhere will be able to further ... the water mold Phytophthora sojae, previously sequenced by DOE JGI, which causes stem and root ...
  • Human genomics in China

    ... etc., were all developed along with the human genomic sequencing project in the late 1990s. Making full ... link between big and small sciences was set up, in that in the genomic era, no body doing small ...
  • Sequencing of sorghum genome completed

    ... involved in both the rice genome and maize (corn) genome sequencing projects. In 1982, he ... accurate and contiguous picture of the entire sorghum genome. "I was very pleased that our earlier DNA ...
  • Opinion: Genome analysis: the global bottleneck

    DNA sequencing for large genomes, including the bovine genome sequencing project, is becoming easier, cheaper - and more competitive. Professor David Adelson, of the University of Adelaide, writes ...
  • Genome Research publishes special issue: Personal Genomes and Variation

    ... issue dedicated to the burgeoning field of personal genomics. The issue features novel biological insights ... new large-scale genome sequencing projects and resources in genomic medicine that lead the way ...
  • First draft of the pig: Researchers sequence swine genome

    ... initial funding, requiring that this be the only pig genome-sequencing project in the world, that it be a public-private partnership ... project almost 20 years ago, few if any of us thought a pig genome ...
  • Scientists at UA, collaborating institutions decode maize genome

    ... and Zhang wrote in a summary of their paper. They said they undertook the maize genome sequencing project "to provide a comprehensive foundation to systematically understand maize biology with the ...
  • How to build a plant

    ... built, cell by cell, is still incomplete. Now, with data emerging from many genome sequencing projects, scientists have begun to unravel the details of plant architecture at the molecular level. ...
  • Evolution of fruit size in tomato

    ... . Tanksley and his colleagues have been employing the data emerging from the International Tomato Genome Sequencing Project as well as the tools of structural genomics to clone and characterize the ...
  • Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics announces major breakthrough

    ... of life, proteins are its actors, its living embodiment." He added that the human genome-sequencing project produced a dictionary. This new encyclopaedia takes one major step further by looking at ...
  • Researchers develop new self-training gene prediction program for fungi

    ... a pre-determined training set along with the genome sequence, GeneMark.hmm-ES (BP) only ... interpret even more complex eukaryotic genomes. "There are genome sequencing projects where large repeat ...

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