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Roche Applied Science Announces Winners of 454 Life Sciences' 10GB Grant Program.

Publication: Biotech Week
Publication Date: 08-JUL-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Roche Applied Science announced the winners of the 10 Gigabase Grant Program for DNA sequencing and transcriptome analysis studies. The program awards up to 10 gigabases of sequencing using the Genome Sequencer FLX System to individual researchers, institutions or corporations as selected by a team of external scientific reviewers representing the fields of plant genomics and agriculture, human genetics and genomics, metagenomics and evolutionary biology. Due to the large number of strong applicants, two first-place grants were awarded. One first-place winner, a team of researchers at the Swiss Tropical Institute, Switzerland, and the University of Glasgow, UK, plans to use the technology of the Genome Sequencer FLX System to uncover genetic mutations associated with drug resistance in a parasite species responsible for African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness). The other first-place winner is...

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