NEW YORK, March 2 (GenomeWeb News) - Solexa has won more than ₤700,000 ($1.3 million) in funding from the UK government to co-develop a comparative genome analysis platform, the company said last week.
The aim of the project, a collaboration between the European Bioinformatics Institute, Imperial College London, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and Solexa, is to develop new bioinformatics tools for the comparative analysis of whole genome data. It will include enabling the Ensembl software system to handle whole genome sequences from several individuals, and developing new statistical tools for analyzing whole genome data.
The total budget for the project, expected to start in April, is ₤1.53 million, which includes contributions from Solexa. The company received the government grant under the LINK program from the UK's Department of Trade and Industry and the Medical Research Council.
Solexa, based in Cambridge, UK, is developing technology for the analyzing individual genomes quickly and economically.