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Jim Mullikin pioneered DNA sequencing technologies during the Human Genome Project and other major advances in genomics.
… Mullikin pioneered DNA sequencing technologies during the Human Genome Project and … the whole progress, from the very early days of Sanger sequencing all the way to a complete telomere-to-telomere … NISC has evolved in tandem with rapidly advancing DNA sequencing technologies. When I was appointed acting director …
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will host researchers from the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium, who have now sequenced the remaining 8% of DNA that was unable to be sequenced by the Human Genome Project and has eluded researchers for nearly two decades.
… What: Virtual press conference to announce T2T consortium sequencing a complete human genome Moderator: Eric Green, …
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New grants totaling approximately $29.5 million will enable scientists to generate and maintain the most comprehensive reference sequence of the human genome.
… The funds are necessary for making advances in DNA sequencing technology and computational methods possible. As … will represent 350 genomes from the human population. The sequencing of the human genome was a landmark achievement in … The second component – the Human Reference Genome Sequencing Center - aims to sequence up to 350 additional …
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Comparative genomics is a field of biological research in which researchers compare the complete genome sequences of different species.
… biology of living things have changed over time. As DNA sequencing technology becomes more powerful and less … list continues to grow almost daily. In addition to the sequencing of the human genome, which was completed in 2003, … critical data for understanding genetic variation. DNA sequencing centers supported by NHGRI also have sequenced …
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Dr. Mullikin was the former director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… to analyze large data sets generated by systematic DNA sequencing projects. A highly skilled computational … analysis package called "Image", custom-modified 60 ABI377 sequencing machines to scan 96 lanes, developed a blazingly … driven sample loading, automated data transfer off the sequencing machines to the central computer cluster, and …
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Dr. Gerard Bouffard directs the Bioinformatics Group at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… where he combined his interests in early genome sequencing of the Escherichia coli genome with the nascent … expedited gene discovery on this chromosome, and directed sequencing efforts in the early days of the Human Genome Project. In 1997, he co-founded the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC) as director of the Bioinformatics …
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The Cancer Genome Atlas identified molecular subtypes to help clinicians determine which tumors are more aggressive and which will respond to treatment.
… types, particularly in signaling pathways that promote tumor development and growth. The researchers developed a … to characterize tumors and determine both the pathway a tumor uses to send signals and its relative aggressiveness. Where a tumor lies on a scale - called its thyroid differentiation …
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A team of NIH-funded researchers have generated the first complete chromosome sequences from non-human primates.
… has only become possible in recent years due to new DNA sequencing technologies and analysis methods. These …
The Genomics Landscape
In the April 7, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., highlights the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium's publishing of a collection of papers that reported the first truly complete sequence of the human genome.
… approach of using the best-available technologies for sequencing DNA and pushing them to their absolute limits. In … filling in the remaining bits because the technologies for sequencing DNA at that time were clearly not up to the task. … Project, more powerful technologies, such as long-read DNA sequencing methods and newer computational tools, aided …
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Dr. Laura Elnitski is a senior investigator in the Translational and Functional Genomics Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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… Dr. Elnitski has played a pivotal role in major genome sequencing and analysis initiatives, including the ENCODE Consortium, the CAGI Consortium, and genome sequencing projects for the mouse, chicken, bovine, and rat … transcript isoform frameworks and their application to tumor stratification, linking splicing alterations to …