Genomics is the study of an organism's entire genome. The field includes intensive efforts to determine the entire DNA sequence of organisms and fine-scale genetic mapping efforts. The field also includes studies of intragenomic phenomena such as heterosis, epistasis, pleiotropy and other interactions between loci and alleles within the genome. In contrast, the investigation of single genes, their functions and roles, something very common in today's medical and biological research, and a... Read Full Story
In 1998, an identical, privately funded quest was launched by the American researcher Craig Venter and his firm Celera Genomics. The $300 million Celera effort was intended to proceed at a faster pace and at a fraction of the cost of the roughly $3 billion publicly-funded project.Celera Genomics was established in May 1998 by the Perkin-Elmer Corporation (and was later purchased by Applera Corporation), with Dr. J. Craig Venter from The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) as its first... Read Full Story
Craig Venter is planning to use his insights about the genome to develop "bio-factories" which synthetically produce organisms that might produce hydrogen fuel or other types of useful, non-polluting materials. Read Full Story
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PowerPoint Presentation on DNA microarrays in genomics and cancer or PowerPoint Presentation on DNA microarray fundamentals, experimental design, normalization, statistc approaches, example applications Read Full Story
