Genome goes cool
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The human genome project has undertaken the sequencing of all deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) of the human genome. Although individual genes are rapidly being identified, the less interesting genetic information located between the identified genes will never be isolated without the project. The importance of these portions is unknown, but may be great. Unless a databank is available to compile the information, much of the data will be lost, and many interesting questions will go unanswered. However, the House of Representatives is proposing that the budget for the project from the National Institutes of Health be cut approximately in half. The project has strategy problems in sequencing the entire human genome. A wide range of new techniques to sequence the genome have been developed from the project, which have complicated the existing strategies. The money will be used to commission some centers now, which will at a later stage be responsible for their portion of the project. It is felt that Congress should not withhold money from the project at this early stage. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1990
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How good a model is the Fugu genome?
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Despite the critical scientific opinion of geneticists J. Gilley et al., the genetic makeup of the pufferfish Surfeit locus is a suitable model for mammalian genome research. Genetic sequencing research shows that the Fugu genome is similar, though not identical to, the human genome. Sufficient conserved synteny and gene order exists to base further comparative genetics work on the Fugu genome.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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Exploring genome space
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The completion of genome sequences for some experimental organisms is driving scientists to develop new technologies that will help them exploit the abundance of new data available on the nature of living cells.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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