NHGRI Awards More than $50M for Low-Cost DNA Sequencing Tech Development
October 13, 2009
NHGRI Awards More than $50M for Low-Cost DNA Sequencing Tech Development
$28.7 million in stimulus funding boosted the number of awards for low-cost sequencing technology development this year from 10 to 17. Seven grants went to corporate research teams, at Pacific Biosciences, Helicos BioSciences, IBM, Ion Torrent Systems, Electronic Biosciences, GE Global Research, and Lightspeed Genomics. Another award supports collaborative research with Halcyon Molecular.
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