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Dr. James Thomas is the acting director for the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… Medicine before returning to NHGRI and the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center in 2011. He is currently the deputy … … James Thomas, NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC), high-throughput sequencing, comparative genomics, data production …
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Dr. Douglas Stewart is an associate investigator in NHGRI's Center for Precision Health Research.
… disorder. Dr. Stewart is leading a project which uses new high-throughput sequencing technologies to identify, catalog and characterize …
Staff
Dr. James Inglese is an adjunct investigator in NHGRI's Metabolic Medicine Branch.
… and international chemical biology consortia. … High throughput technologies enable assays of biochemical, … an experimentally efficient and reproducible manner. These high throughput screening, or HTS, assays enable the …
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Dr. Robb Rowley is an Internal Medicine Physician and a program director for the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network.
… electronic medical record (EMR) systems for large scale, high-throughput genetic research in support of implementing … DNA biorepositories, electronic medical record (EMR), high-throughput genetic research, genomic medicine … Dr. Robb …
Educational Resources
Shotgun sequencing is a laboratory technique for determining the DNA sequence of an organism's genome.
… Shotgun Sequencing … Shotgun sequencing is a laboratory technique for determining the DNA … an organism's genome. … Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA), DNA Sequencing, Genome, Human Genome Project … Shotgun sequencing …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Advances in genomics are reducing the cost of genome sequencing by a million-fold.
… Advances in genomics are reducing the cost of genome sequencing by a million-fold. … Did you know that your genome … - that means they copy small parts of the sample to reach high enough levels for measuring. The amplification step … DNA, including a million-fold reduction in the cost for sequencing a human genome. Continually improving the accuracy …
Educational Resources
DNA sequencing is a laboratory technique used to determine the exact sequence of bases (A, C, G, and T) in a DNA molecule.
… DNA Sequencing … DNA sequencing is a laboratory technique used to determine the … … Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Thymine, ACGT, DNA, DNA Sequencing … DNA sequencing refers to the general laboratory …
Research Funding
Coordinates activities across the Genome Sequencing Program components
… The National Human Genome Research Institute's Genome Sequencing Program Coordinating Center (GSPCC) was funded in 2016 to coordinate activities across the Genome Sequencing Program components. … The GSPCC has both … and administrative activities including: Tracking genome sequencing and analysis costs; data production and …
Fact Sheets
Estimated cost of sequencing the human genome over time since the Human Genome Project.
… have led to substantial reductions in the cost of genome sequencing. The underlying costs associated with different … >95% of the genome at ~99.99% accuracy). Producing truly high-quality 'finished' sequence by this definition is very … is very labor-intensive and is thus associated with high costs. In fact, most human genome sequences produced …
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Data used to estimate the cost of sequencing the human genome over time since the Human Genome Project.
… (NHGRI) has tracked the costs associated with DNA sequencing performed at the sequencing centers funded by the … of 1 % and is an accepted community standard for a high-quality base. For sequence data generated with … coverage' (i.e., 'sequence redundancy') to generate a high-quality assembly of the genome given the specific …