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Summit
This Summit is a 5-year initiative (2016-2020) designed to help developing nations build and expand their knowledge base, infrastructure, systems, research efforts and technologies in human genetics and genomics.
News Release
Researchers developed a technique that will aid in a more accurate reconstruction of human genomes.
… and the Brahman, demonstrate how previous genome assembly technology can lead to a misrepresented image of the genome. … takes advantage of the newest generation of sequencing technology that can "read" much longer areas of the genome - … time or more - compared to a few hundred bases in previous technology. The parents' genomes are first sequenced using …
Educational Resources
Fact sheets explaining complex concepts in genomics research to a non-scientific audience.
… Comparative Genomics, Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA), DNA Microarray, DNA Sequencing, Epigenomics, Knockout Mice, …
Funded Research
The Advancing Genomic Medicine Research (AGMR) program stimulates innovation and advance understanding of when, where and how best to implement the use of genomic information and technologies in clinical care.
Research Funding
The Division of Genome Sciences supports and accelerates foundational resources, technology development, experimental approaches, in basic genomics and functional genomics research. The Division also oversees a number of transformational initiatives and programs in genomic sciences.
… Sciences supports and accelerates foundational resources, technology development, experimental approaches, in basic … division supports and accelerates foundational resources, technology development, experimental approaches, data science … efforts in relevant program areas. … Advancing Genomic Technology Development for Research and Clinical Application …
Staff
Dr. Michael Smith is a program director in the Division of Genome Sciences at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
… management expertise to the Extramural Program to lead the technology development program and coordinate small business … and grantees can assist researchers broadly with technology development and small business genomic … directed the Genetics and Genomics Group of the Advanced Technology Program where he built a next-generation …
Event
The Genomics and Health Disparities Lecture Series was formed to enhance opportunities for dialogue about how innovations in genomics research and technology can impact health disparities. Topics will range from basic science to translational research.
… dialogue about how innovations in genomics research and technology can impact health disparities. Topics will range … dialogue about how innovations in genomics research and technology can impact health disparities. … The Genomics and … dialogue about how innovations in genomics research and technology can impact health disparities. Topics will range …
Talking Glossary
Next-generation DNA sequencing (abbreviated NGS) refers to the use of technologies for sequencing DNA that became available shortly after the completion of the Human Genome Project (which relied on the first-generation method of Sanger sequencing).
Event
Join us on Wednesday, May 25, as scholars and scientists answer audience questions and address the complexities surrounding historical and present-day eugenics and scientific racism in the context of existing and developing genetic and genomic screening technologies.
… autonomous, fulfilling lives. Emerging genome sequencing technology may lead to the widespread use of genome …
Research Funding
The $1,000 Genome Program was a coordinated effort to support the development of technologies to dramatically reduce the cost of DNA sequencing, a move aimed at broadening the applications of genomic information in medical research and health care.
… which culminated in 2014, are described in Nature : “Technology: The $1,000 Genome.” The history and achievements … which was led by Dr. Jeffery Schloss , as the Sequencing Technology Development Program Director at NHGRI, are further … and Re-Sequencing the Biome! July 2002 Sequencing Technology Workshop May 1998 Functional Analysis Workshop …