Search Results
Research Funding
The Genome Sequencing Program uses genome sequencing to identify genes and genomic variants underlying human inherited disease.
… The Genome Sequencing Program is consists of the following centers … funding opportunity announcements. … The NHGRI Genome Sequencing Program (GSP) has evolved from NIH's participation … McGill University Len Pennacchio, Ph.D. Deputy of Genomic Technologies, DOE Joint Genome Institute & Senior Staff …
Research Funding
A collaborative large-scale genome sequencing effort to identify rare risk and protective variants contributing to multiple common disease phenotypes.
… Genomics (CCDG) are a collaborative large-scale genome sequencing effort to comprehensively identify rare risk and … informatics tools, and innovative approaches and technologies for multiple disease research communities and … Common Disease Genomics … Collaborative large-scale genome sequencing effort to identify rare risk and protective …
News Release
A new study by researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is challenging traditional practices for validating DNA sequencing results.
… is challenging traditional practices for validating DNA sequencing results. The research suggests that newer, faster, "next-generation" DNA sequencing (NGS) methods are as accurate - and perhaps more accurate - than Sanger sequencing, a time-tested technique that is typically used to …
Staff
Sangeetha Raghavan is a Senior Licensing and Patenting Manager in NHGRI's Technology Transfer Office.
… transfer professional with experience in evaluating technologies in wide ranging areas of biologics, diagnostics, … molecules and software. Her experience includes assessing technologies for their patentability and commercial … variety of intellectual property agreements, and marketing technologies to facilitate the transfer of such technologies …
News Release
Researchers developed a technique that will aid in a more accurate reconstruction of human genomes.
… a genome from the much smaller pieces of DNA that sequencing machines are able to read, much like putting … For example, the Angus breed evolved to produce a very high-quality beef product, while the Brahman breed, emerging … technology. The parents' genomes are first sequenced using high-accuracy short reads to determine which parts of their …
News Release
Ten investigators will receive exome sequencing data as part of their clinical research projects at the NIH Clinical Center.
… Kaegi … Ten intramural investigators will receive exome sequencing data as part of their clinical research projects … NIH Clinical Center. Using CCGO funds, the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center will sequence the exomes of 1,000 NIH Clinical Center patients. Exome sequencing explores the 1-2 percent of the genome that codes …
Talking Glossary
Nanopore DNA sequencing is a laboratory technique for determining the exact sequence of nucleotides, or bases, in a DNA molecule.
… Nanopore DNA Sequencing … Nanopore DNA sequencing is a laboratory technique for determining the … nucleotides, or bases, in a DNA molecule. … Nanopore DNA sequencing is a laboratory technique for determining the …
Talking Glossary
The genome reference sequence provides a general framework and is not the DNA sequence of a single person.
News Release
NIH lost a key member of its broader genomics team when Robert Blakesley, Ph.D., director of the NISC sequencing group at NIH, retired on Dec. 31, 2015.
… 31 retirement of Robert Blakesley, Ph.D., director of the sequencing group at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center … Maryland. … "Bob's dedication to his work is sky high, only matched by his competence," said Eric Green, M.D., … 1990, first at Bethesda Research Labs (later re-named Life Technologies, Inc.) and now at NISC. A fourth-generation …
News Release
Baylor College of Medicine. Houston and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee will be providing DNA sequencing for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network.
… College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee will be providing DNA sequencing for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). Each … of funds. … The two universities will become the DNA Sequencing Core sites for the UDN. The UDN also includes … programs that are expected to have exceptionally high impact. The goals of the program are to investigate …