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The Genomics Landscape
In the July 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green recalls the White House event announcing the draft human genome sequence.
… announce the completion of a draft sequence of the human genome. The ceremony took place in the East Room of the White … gathered to celebrate a major milestone for the Human Genome Project. This historic landmark for biomedical … had also accomplished a series of other goals, including sequencing the genomes of a set of model organisms. In fact, …
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NHGRI convened geneticists, biologists, clinicians, bioinformatics specialists and more to provide expert advice on the future of its Genome Sequencing Program.
… Steven Benowitz … On July 28-29, 2014, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) convened geneticists, … to provide expert advice on the future of its flagship Genome Sequencing Program (GSP). … The two-day meeting, titled, …
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NHGRI-funded CSER investigators and colleagues point to need for greater evidence that DNA sequencing helps patients.
… … In the nearly four years since its launch, the Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research (CSER) program has made … care. … CSER, which is funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Cancer … and entire exomes (the protein-coding portion of the genome), Dr. Rehm suggested that there may be too much recent …
The Genomics Landscape
In the April 7, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., highlights the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium's publishing of a collection of papers that reported the first truly complete sequence of the human genome.
… significance of their results.     …   In 2003, the Human Genome Project ended with the generation of an essentially complete sequence of the human genome. The project took the practical approach of using the best-available technologies for sequencing DNA and pushing them to their absolute limits. In …
The Genomics Landscape
In the February 12, 2021 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green talks about the 20-year anniversary of the publications that reported the draft human genome sequence.
… Vision — Generating and analyzing a complete human genome sequence will be routine for any research laboratory, … 92nd meeting of the  National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research  will take place on February 22-23. As usual, … the 1980s discussing the desirability and feasibility of sequencing the human genome, to the U.S. Department of …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green features the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center.
… and the field of genomics.   … The  NIH Intramural Sequencing Center  (NISC) sits on the top floor of a research … essentially unchanged in >20 years: provide contemporary genome-sequencing capabilities for intramural researchers at … to that mission, regularly generating large amounts of genome-sequence data and analyses for numerous NHGRI and NIH …
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NHGRI will fund a set of genome sequencing and analysis centers whose research will focus on understanding the genomic bases of common and rare human diseases.
… … The National Institutes of Health will fund a set of genome sequencing and analysis centers whose research will focus on … of common and rare human diseases. … The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH, today …
The Genomics Landscape
In the July 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green reflects on the milestones of the Newborn Sequencing in Genomic Medicine and Public Health (NSIGHT) Program as it reaches completion.
… updates and monitor the ‘Genomics2020’ calendar . … The  Genome: Unlocking Life's Code  exhibition is currently … of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the Newborn Sequencing in Genomic Medicine and Public Health (NSIGHT) … and opportunities associated with the possible use of genome sequence information in the care of newborns. …
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green focuses on recent efforts to make the human genome reference sequence useful to basic and clinical researchers and how increasing the representation of human genomic variation will remain key components of NHGRI’s Human Genome Reference Program.
… updates and monitor the ‘Genomics2020’ calendar . … The  Genome: Unlocking Life's Code  exhibition is currently … the field of genomics. …   Research studies that generate genome-sequence data rely on a reference sequence for making … were difficult to “read out” completely using the DNA-sequencing methods available at that time. In addition, the …
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Scientists have published the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, two decades after the Human Genome Project produced the first draft human genome sequence.
… published the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, two decades after the Human Genome Project produced the first draft human genome … will empower genetic studies of human disease. The full sequencing builds upon the work of the Human Genome Project , …