Wellcome Trust Awards EBI $10M to Manage Trace Sequence Archive

Jul 15, 2008

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The UK’s Wellcome Trust has awarded the European Bioinformatics Institute €6.3 million ($10 million) through 2012 to manage an international archive of raw DNA sequence data, EBI said yesterday.

EBI, an outpost of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory located on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK, will maintain the resource, called the Trace Archive, in collaboration with the National Center for Biotechnology Information in the US.

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