Wellcome Sanger Institute
The resource contains Illumina whole-genome sequencing data from UK Biobank participants and is available to approved researchers worldwide.
The program is being launched with "redeployment" of existing funding at the Sanger Institute as well as supplemental funding from the Wellcome charitable foundation.
Plasmid Transfer Let Cholera Pathogen in Yemen Become Multidrug Resistant, Study Suggests
By analyzing genome sequences for 260 Vibrio cholerae isolates from an outbreak in Yemen, researchers identified a persistent drug resistance plasmid in the cholera pathogen.
Consanguinity Contributes to Common Disease Risk, Study Suggests
By focusing on ancestry groups with higher-than-usual rates of cousin marriage, researchers identified 12 common diseases that traced with runs of homozygosity.
Rare Kidney Cancer Genomic Analysis Reveals Potential Target, Suggests Treatment
Investigators from the UK analyzed samples from two reninoma patients by whole-genome and RNA sequencing and found rearrangements of the NOTCH1 gene.