marine genomics

Illumina, Minderoo Foundation Ink A$40M Partnership on Marine Life Sequencing

The partners will collaborate to create high-quality reference genomes for marine vertebrates to help identify unknown sequences from seawater.

BGI Opens Asia-Pacific Regional Office, Inks Agreements With Queensland Researchers

BGI will work with researchers in Australia on agricultural and human health projects, and will seek new partnerships across the region.

Genome Sequence Provides Peek at Visual Capabilities of Pacific Bluefin Tuna

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Patterns in the Pacific bluefin tuna genome suggest the fish may owe some of its predatory prowess to adaptations involving visual pigment genes.

Genome Study Offers Hints to Unusual Traits in Platyfish

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – In a study appearing online this week in Nature Genetics, researchers described findings from an effort to sequence and scrutinize the genome of platyfish, Xipho

Affymetrix, Aqua Gen, CIGENE Collaborate on Biomarker Patterns in Atlantic Salmon

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Aqua Gen, the Center for Integrative Genomics (CIGENE), and Affymetrix today announced they have partnered to successfully genotype more than 900,000 biomarkers per sample from the Atlantic salmon.

Mar 11, 2013

Genome BC Heads Study on Salmon Microbes and Disease

Mar 11, 2013

EU Launches $12M Project to Search Deep Sea Trenches for Bioactive Compounds

Feb 22, 2013

Team Taps Coral Transcriptomes in Search for Environmental Response Markers

Feb 4, 2013

Consortium Providing $17M to Research Salmon, Trout Resistance to Caligus and SRS

Dec 19, 2012

A Trio of New Animal Genomes Serves as Source of Information on Ancestral Bilaterians

Dec 7, 2012

European Commission Provides $9.6M for BlueGenics Project

Dec 5, 2012

Moore Foundation Provides $35M for 'Risky' Marine Microbe Studies

Jun 7, 2012

Miami Breaks Ground on Marine Life Sciences Lab

Sep 8, 2010

$20M NSF Grant Designed to Promote Marine Research at URI, Partner Institutions

Mar 3, 2010

Oregon Legislature Approves $9M for Marine Genomics Center

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Suicidal Ideation-Linked Loci Identified Using Million Veteran Program Data

Researchers in PLOS Genetics identify risk variants within and across ancestry groups with a genome-wide association study involving veterans with or without a history of suicidal ideation.

Algorithm Teases Out Genetic Ancestry in Individuals at Biobank Scale

Researchers develop an algorithm known as Rye to tease apart ancestry fractions in admixed individuals at a biobank-scale, applying it to 488,221 UK Biobank participants in Nucleic Acids Research.

Multi-Ancestry Analysis Highlights Comparable Common Variants at Complex Trait-Linked Loci

Researchers in Nature Genetics examine common variants implicated in more than three dozen conditions, estimating genetic effect similarities across ancestry tracts in admixed individuals.

Sick Newborns Selected for WGS With Automated Pipeline

Researchers successfully prioritized infants with potential Mendelian conditions for whole-genome sequencing or rapid whole-genome sequencing, as they report in Genome Medicine.