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3 unusual facts about TIGR


Tigr

MYOC, a human gene (Trabecular meshwork Inducible Glucocorticoid Response)

Tigr, GAZ-2975 "Tigr", a Russian high-mobility multipurpose military vehicle

TIGR, an anti-Fascist insurgent organization, active in the 1920s and the 1930s in the regions Italy was given by the Treaty of Rappallo after the First world war.


Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans

According to TIGR evolutionary biologist Jonathan Eisen, "C. hydrogenoformans is one of the fastest-growing microbes that can convert water and carbon monoxide to hydrogen." The microbe owes this to the fact that it has at least five different forms of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase.

Clyde A. Hutchison III

In 1996 Hutchison spent a sabbatical year at TIGR; there he discussed with Hamilton Smith and Craig Venter the idea of a minimum cell - cell with the minimal set of genes required for survival.

Human Genome Sciences

HGS had a partnership for several years after its founding with Craig Venter and his non-profit TIGR to begin sequencing and submitting patents on hundreds of thousands of protein-encoding DNA fragments.

Influenza Genome Sequencing Project

In early 2004, David Lipman, Steven Salzberg, and a consortium of other scientists wrote a proposal to begin sequencing large numbers of influenza viruses at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR).


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