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Public Library of Medicine
PLoS Medicine is an open-access journal published by the nonprofit organisation Public Library of Sciencehttp://www.plos.org . It publishes original research, reviews, and 'policy forum' pieces on a wide range of health science topics including malaria....
LINK | 2 November 2005 | EN
The Human Genome: Science, Medicine and Society
The Human Genome website - run by the Wellcome Trust - aims to provide an accessible, balanced and up-to-date account of progress in understanding the human genome and the application of this understanding in medical, personal and social arenas. The site has sections on: the genome, genes and the...
LINK | 31 March 2004 | EN
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute was set up in 1992 by the Wellcome Trust and the UK Medical Research Council in order to further our knowledge of genomes. It is one of the world's leading genomics centres, and is responsible for the completion of the sequence of approximately one-third of the...
LINK | 31 March 2004 | EN
The Institute for Genomic Research
Founded in 1992, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) is a not-for-profit research institute whose primary research interests are in structural, functional and comparative analysis of genomes and gene products from a wide variety of organisms. TIGR has completed the genome sequence of many...
LINK | 31 March 2004 | EN
Structural Genomics Consortium
The Structural Genomics Consortium is a not-for-profit company that aims to determine the three dimensional structures of proteins of medical relevance, and place them in the public domain without restriction. The project has over four hundred structures in its Protein Data Bank and operates from...
LINK | 30 March 2004 | EN
South African National Bioinformatics Institute
SANBI's role is to bring genome information, computational biology, and analytical tools to the South African research community, and to conduct genomic analysis relevant to South African health research and biotechnology. It aims to raise awareness of genome biology, develop analysis systems...
LINK | 30 March 2004 | EN
US National Human Genome Research Institute
The National Human Genome Research Institute led the US contribution to the sequencing of the human genome. Following the completion of the Human Genome Project, NHGRI has moved into areas of genetic and genomic research aimed at improving human health and fighting disease. It also supports the...
LINK | 30 March 2004 | EN
Nature: Genome Gateway
Nature's Genome Gateway is the journal's contribution to making genomic information freely accessible to the whole research community. It includes a library of original research papershttp://www.nature.com/genomics/papers/ from Nature and Nature Genetics, and a news...
LINK | 23 March 2004 | EN
International Rice Functional Genomics Consortium
International Rice Functional Genomics Consortium was formed in 2003 following publication of draft sequences of two rice subtypes by the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project. The Consortium will facilitate research in the post-sequencing "functional genomics" era. Objectives include...
LINK | 23 March 2004 | EN
International HapMap Project
The International HapMap Project is a partnership of scientists and funding agencies from Canada, China, Japan, Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States to develop a public resource that will help researchers find genes associated with human disease and responses to drugs and environmental...
LINK | 23 March 2004 | EN
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (India)
The Institute of genomics and Integrative Biology is a constituent laboratory of India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. It is engaged in various aspects of modern biotechnology with a special focus on functional genomics and genome informatics. Formerly the Centre for Biochemical...
LINK | 23 March 2004 | EN
Institute of Bioinformatics (India)
India's Institute of Bioinformatics is a not-for-profit organisation engaged in cutting-edge research into databases, computational genomics, proteomics and comparative genomics. Its initial goal is to create a freely available human Protein Reference Database using open source technologies and to...
LINK | 23 March 2004 | EN
UK Economic and Social Research Council: Genomics Network
The UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is undertaking a major initiative to investigate the social and economic context of genomics, which will provide insights into the fundamental transformations resulting from genomic research (from the impact of new medical practices to changes in...
LINK | 23 March 2004 | EN
The Human Genome Organisation
HUGO is a membership organiastion that aims to promote international discussion and collaboration on scientific issues and topics crucial to the progress of the worldwide human genome initiative. It promotes the scientific study of the human genome, and provides a global forum for addressing the...
LINK | 23 March 2004 | EN
Genome News Network
The Genome News Network is published by The Center for the Advancement of Genomics, and aims to be a lively, trusted online magazine that covers important developments in genomics research around the world. It is updated on a fortnightly basis with news and feature stories about human medicine,...
LINK | 23 March 2004 | EN
Genome Biology
The journal Genome Biology is published by BioMedCentral, and offers free access to primary research articles and a preprint depositoryhttp://genomebiology.com/preprint/ to which authors may submit work for free distribution over the web. It aims to provide an international forum for the...
LINK | 23 March 2004 | EN
European Bioinformatics Institute
The European Bioinformatics Institute is a non-profit academic organisation that forms part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). Its mission is to ensure that the growing body of information from molecular biology and genome research is placed in the public domain and is accessible...
LINK | 18 March 2004 | EN
Duke University: Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy
The Center for Genome Ethics, Law, & Policy - part of Duke University's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policyhttp://www.genomics.duke.edu/index.html - was created to foster ethically responsible and socially beneficial uses of genome science, while addressing the complex ethical, legal, social...
LINK | 18 March 2004 | EN
DOEgenomes.org
The US Department of Energy's genome site provides information about US involvement in the Human Genome Project (HGP). The website includes basic information about the HGPhttp://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/about.shtml , educational...
LINK | 18 March 2004 | EN
Chinese National Human Genome Centre
The Chinese National Human Genome Centre in Beijing was established in 1998 and played a key role in the Human Genome Project. It aims to strengthen international collaboration and attract more foreign researchers - especially overseas Chinese scientists - to genomic research in China, and has...
LINK | 18 March 2004 | EN
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