Wellcome Trust
WHO International Pathogen Surveillance Network Launches With $4M in Donor Funding
Initial grants for the new fund were provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Wellcome.
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.
A Cambridge University study found phrases touting the benefits of genomics research without acknowledging limitations can turn off the very people researchers need to engage most.
Supported by the Wellcome Trust, the effort is rooted in the idea that many proteins go unstudied due to a lack of basic functional information about them.