Month: November 2010
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Genome 10K project announces first 101 species for genome sequencing
By Branwyn WagmanSANTA CRUZ, CA–The Genome 10K Community of Scientists and BGI (formerly the Beijing Genomics Institute) of Shenzhen, China, have announced a plan to sequence the genomes of 101 vertebrate species within the next two years, the first of an eventual 10,000 species to be sequenced by the Genome 10K Project.The Genome 10K Project (G10K)…
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FragSeq: a new method for gazing at the shape of a cell’s RNA
By Branwyn Wagman Santa Cruz, CA–A new technology for ribonucleic acid (RNA) structure detection developed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, combines test tube RNA biochemistry, high-throughput sequencing, and computational biology to shine new light on the structure and function of these versatile molecules. The method, called FragSeq, provides a new tool for characterizing…
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Online tutorial guides users through the ENCODE data portal on the UCSC Genome Browser
A new online tutorial suite teaches users how to access the ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project data in the UCSC Genome Browser. The online tutorial, created by OpenHelix in conjunction with the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group at the University of California, Santa Cruz, can be viewed for free at http://www.openhelix.com/encode. The ENCODE Project is an…