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unusual facts about human genome



James V. Neel

Of particular interest to Neel was an understanding of the human genome in an evolutionary light, a concept he addressed in his fieldwork with cultural anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon among the Yanomamo in Brazil and Venezuela.

Stewart Blusson

The prize will go to the person or group that can develop a quick (100 people in 10 days) and inexpensive way to sequence a human genome.

Themes in Blade Runner

The first draft of the entire human genome was decoded on June 26, 2000, by the Human Genome Project, followed by a steadily increasing number of other organisms across the microscopic to macroscopic spectrum.


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Alex Titomirov

InforMax Inc. was also assisting The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI, NIH) with various programs including but not limited to the Human Genome Project, GenBank, Entrez, PubMed, and MedLine.

Cancer genome sequencing

The two main projects focused on complete cancer characterization in individuals, heavily involving sequencing include the Cancer Genome Project, based at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Cancer Genome Atlas funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).

Chalcid wasp

Copidosoma floridanum serves as a useful example of a wasp that provides pest control, and most recently, the wasp's genome is being sequenced by the Human Genome Sequencing Center as part of the i5K project, which aims to sequence the genomes of 5,000 arthropods.

Conjoined gene

However, only a very limited number of these CGs are found in the public human genome resources such as the Entrez Gene database, the UCSC Genome Browser and the Vertebrate Genome Annotation (Vega) database.

Eric Green

Eric D. Green (born 1959), director of the National Human Genome Research Institute

FAIRE-Seq

FAIRE-seq data are mapped to the human genome assembly and displayed as part of the ENCODE project at the UCSC Genome Browser.

Glycophorin

A fifth (glycophorin E) has been identified within the human genome but cannot easily be detected on routine gel staining.

Intron

For example, while the human genome contains an average of 8.4 introns/gene (139,418 in the genome), the unicellular fungus Encephalitozoon cuniculi contains only 0.0075 introns/gene (15 introns in the genome).

MITES

Genomics - Students research DNA and genetic diseases at the Broad Institute, where one third of the human genome was sequenced.

National Human Genome Research Institute

November 17, 2009 - NIH Appoints Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D. to be Director of The National Human Genome Research Institute.

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Elliott H. Margulies, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health

Richard M. Myers

Myers' genome center contributed approximately 10 percent of the data in the public-sector Human Genome Project's efforts to sequence the human genome.

Technical Presentation

In his book, Presentations for Dummies, Malcolm Kushner’s chapter on “Technical and Financial Presentations” includes comments by Dr. David Haussler, the mastermind of the human genome project and an expert on technical presentations.

Warren Gish

In 1999, Gish added support to WU-BLAST for the Extended Database Format (XDF), the first BLAST database format capable of accurately representing the entire draft sequence of the human genome in full-length chromosome sequence objects.