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The Division of Extramural Research
The Division of Extramural Research (DER) provides scientific administration and management of the National Human Genome Research Institute's grants, cooperative agreements and contracts programs. In consultation with the broad scientific community, the DER supports funding for research, training and career development in genomics at sites across the nation. The DER is also the locus for international collaborations at the National Institutes of Health for genomic research.
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September 2009: Prepublication Data Sharing: The Toronto Statement
 International experts have updated guidelines for the rapid release of genomics data and proposed extending the prepublication release principles to other biological data sets. Two NHGRI researchers are among the authors of an Opinion article about rapid data release published, now in the journal Nature. ( more)
Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10,000 Vertebrate Species  As DNA sequencing costs decline, a group of research biologists has pondered reading evolution's notebooks in the genomes of thousands of vertebrate species. Using a workshop to organize their ideas, the group has proposed The 10K Genomes Project in a paper published Nov. 5 in the Journal of Heredity. Co-authors include NHGRI's Eric Green M.D., Ph.D. and Adam Felsenfeld, Ph.D.
Read the paper: Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10,000 Vertebrate Species
NHGRI Uses Recovery Act Funds to Accelerate Genome Research to Improve Human Health  The National Human Genome Research Institute awards more than $113 million provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The new awards, added to NHGRI's regularly appropriated $367 million budget, will stimulate ground-breaking research ranging from studies aimed at understanding the human genome to those intended to lead to improvements in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human illness. ( more)
 Researchers from the model organism ENCODE (modENCODE) consortium, an effort to identify all of the functional elements in the genomes of the fruit fly and round worm, have published details of the project's scientific strategy in the June 18 issue of Nature. ModENCODE is a parallel effort to the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements consortium's endeavor to catalog all of the functional elements in the human genome [ Full Text] Highlights
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Last Updated: October 22, 2009
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The 2009 Recovery Act
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To help stimulate the nation's economy, Congress passed The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, distributing $10.4 billion to the National Institutes of Health. NHGRI will invest its portion in new and continuing studies to expand genomic and genetic research and advance human health (more)
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