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Dr. Colin Fletcher is the program director in the Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP) in NHGRI's Extramural Research Program.
… principally responsible for supervising The Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP). The goal of the KOMP program, expected to be … is now working to implement The Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Project (KOMP2). The goal of this program is to covert the … Colin Fletcher, Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP), Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Project (KOMP2), …
News Release
In August 2022, NHGRI History of Genomics Program celebrates 10 years of chronicling how the field of genomics began and evolved, with a particular emphasis on the role of NHGRI.
… most important undertakings in science, the Human Genome Project, as well as a series of major genomics initiatives that immediately followed. As one of the project’s major leaders, his files contained key insights … director and a genomicist who worked on the Human Genome Project. Green had also spent a great deal of time thinking …
The Genomics Landscape
In the September 3, 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green talks about the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) Consortium, the 2020 Genomic Innovator Awards and more.
… to the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Human Genome Project in October 2020. Check out the latest oral histories … field of genomics, including those from the Human Genome Project and major genomics programs that followed it. … genomic resources, including through the HapMap project, 1000 Genomes project, and the African Genome Variation …
Educational Resources
Population genomics is the application of genomic technologies to understand populations of organisms.
… Founder Effect, Genetic Drift, HapMap, Human Genome Project …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
We are learning how our genomes serve as blueprints for life.
… We are learning how our genomes serve as blueprints for life. … bit of a mystery! When scientists started the Human Genome Project, they didn't even know how many genes were in the … for constructing three-dimensional "satellite" maps of genomes, where we can see what proteins bind to what DNA …
News Release
NHGRI has created a new publicly available digital archive and search aid for accessing documents related to the Human Genome Project and the history of genomics.
… trove of historical materials from the Human Genome Project. … such as the International Haplotype Map (HapMap) Project, 1000 Genomes, Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa), and … collection spans almost the entirety of the Human Genome Project, including before there was even a genomics-focused …
Fact Sheets
Genomics is the study of all of a person's genes (the genome), including interactions of those genes with each other and with the person's environment.
… The Human Genome Project, which was led at the National Institutes of Health … freely available in public databases. That international project was successfully completed in April 2003, under … whether their samples were actually used. The Human Genome Project was designed to generate a resource that could be …
Research at NHGRI
NHGRI researchers are creating foundational tools and methods to expand genomics research, ultimately leading to medical breakthroughs.
Research Funding
The CEGS Program supports multi-investigator, interdisciplinary research teams who develop novel and innovative genomic research projects.
News Release
Scientists have published the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, two decades after the Human Genome Project produced the first draft human genome sequence.
… of a human genome, two decades after the Human Genome Project produced the first draft human genome sequence. … full sequencing builds upon the work of the Human Genome Project , which mapped about 92% of the genome, and research … fallen significantly since the end of the Human Genome Project. However, using these short-read methods alone still …