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An anticodon is a trinucleotide sequence complementary to that of a corresponding codon in a messenger RNA (mRNA) sequence.
… An anticodon is a trinucleotide sequence complementary to that of a corresponding codon in a messenger RNA (mRNA) sequence. … Transfer RNA, TRNA, Messenger RNA, MRNA, Complementary Sequence … A codon is a DNA or RNA sequence of three nucleotides (a trinucleotide) that forms a …
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A contig is a series of overlapping DNA sequences used to make a map that reconstructs the original DNA sequence of a chromosome or a region of a chromosome.
… used to make a map that reconstructs the original DNA sequence of a chromosome or a region of a chromosome. … of cloned segments of DNA across a genomic region, while a sequence contig provides the actual DNA sequence of a genomic region. … used to make a map that reconstructs the original DNA sequence of a chromosome or a region of a chromosome. …
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NHGRI will provide approximately $5.8 million over five years to create an educational hub for computational genomics and data science. The hub will provide new educational and research opportunities for students of diverse backgrounds, including those from groups historically underrepresented in the biomedical sciences.
… Funding to enhance diversity in genomic data science through cloud computing. … create an educational hub for computational genomics and data science. The hub will provide new educational and … Office of Genomic Data Science within the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). “Instead of requiring …
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Jim Mullikin pioneered DNA sequencing technologies during the Human Genome Project and other major advances in genomics.
… pioneered DNA sequencing technologies during the Human Genome Project and other major advances in genomics. … are you most proud of? Jim Mullikin: Of course, the Human Genome Project is one of the top ones. I started working on … finished just before I moved to NHGRI in 2003. Seeing the whole progress, from the very early days of Sanger sequencing …
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Dr. Mullikin was the former director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… skills to the genomics field in 1997, just as the Human Genome Project was scaling up. He has been involved in many … Project as well as numerous other genome projects. His Sequence Search and Alignment by Hashing Algorithm (SSAHA) … HapMap Project. Dr. Mullikin also developed a whole-genome assembly program, called Phusion. Dr. Mullikin …
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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.
… to generate and maintain the most comprehensive reference sequence of the human genome. The awards, made over five years pending the … availability of funds, are managed by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National … The currently available reference sequence of the human genome is becoming obsolete. The funds are necessary for …
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Comparative genomics is a field of biological research in which researchers compare the complete genome sequences of different species.
… researchers use a variety of tools to compare the complete genome sequences of different species. By carefully comparing … of years - is an important step toward understanding the genome itself. It pinpoints genes that are essential to life … protein is produced by any given gene is determined by the sequence in which four building blocks - adenine (A), thymine …
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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.
… attend an expert panel discuss the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome via virtual conference call on March 31. … 8% of DNA that was unable to be sequenced by the Human Genome Project and has eluded researchers for nearly two … that were brought together for deciphering the complete sequence of the roughly 3 billion bases in our DNA. When: …
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Jennifer Strasburger was the lead Genomic Program Administrator (GPA) for NHGRI as well as the co-chair for the NHGRI Data Access Committee (DAC).
… Ms. Jennifer Strasburger joined the National Human Genome Research Institute's (NHGRI) Extramural Research … and intramural investigators in depositing genomic data into public repositories such as dbGaP and AnVIL . Ms. … (GPA) for NHGRI as well as the co-chair for the NHGRI Data Access Committee (DAC). …
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Dr. Gerard Bouffard directs the Bioinformatics Group at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… University, where he combined his interests in early genome sequencing of the Escherichia coli genome with the … bioinformatics. He used restriction endonuclease mapping data with published DNA sequence fragments to target and close gaps in the genomic … YAC contig map with average STS spacing of 79 kb. Genome Res , 7:673-692. 1997. [ PubMed ] Gubin A.N., Njoroge …