NHGRI, NIAID Set Aside $30M in RFAs to Finish Human Microbiome DNA Sequences

Nov 23, 2007

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — The National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have set aside around $30.5 million in a request for applications for a project that aims to finish compiling a reference set of DNA sequences for the Human Microbiome Project, the National Institutes of Health said today.

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