Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project (HGP) was a 13-year project coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. During the early years of the HGP, the Wellcome Trust (U.K.) became a major partner; additional contributions came from Japan, France, Germany, China, and others. See our history page for more information. Project goals were to identify all the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA, determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA, store this information in databases, improve tools for data analysis, transfer related technologies to the private sector, and address the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) that may arise from the project. Though the HGP is finished, analyses of the data will continue for many years. Follow this ongoing research on our Progress page. ... [Information of the supplier]
An international research consortium has been formed to create the most detailed and medically useful picture to date of human genetic variation. The 1000 Genomes Project will involve sequencing the genomes of at least a thousand people from around the world. The project will receive major support from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, England, the Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen in China and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Drawing on the expertise of multidisciplinary research teams, the 1000 Genomes Project will develop a new map of the human genome that will provide a view of biomedically relevant DNA variations at a resolution unmatched by current resources. As with other major human genome reference projects, data from the 1000 Genomes Project will be made swiftly available to the worldwide scientific community through freely accessible public databases. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Neandertal genome project was initiated in 2006 to sequence the 3 billion bases that make up the complete genome of the closest human relative – the Neandertals. A multidisciplinary research consortium led by Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, is undertaking analysis of the sequence data which has been generated in collaboration with 454 Life Sciences and Illumina. ... [Information of the supplier]
Volunteers from the general public working together with researchers to advance personal genomics. We believe individuals from the general public have a vital role to play in making personal genomes useful. We are recruiting volunteers who are willing to share their genome sequence and many types of personal information with the research community and the general public, so that together we will be better able to advance our understanding of genetic and environmental contributions to human traits. Learn more about how to participate in the Personal Genome Project. ... [Information of the supplier]
BiodivERsA is a network composed of national organisations funding or managing research programmes on biodiversity across Europe. The objectives of this ERA-Net are to promote the cooperation between funding agencies in the field of biodiversity research and to coordinate research programmes at strategic and management levels to eventually develop and implement joint activities. The European partners in the BiodivERsA network have joined efforts to organize and fund a Pan-European call for international research projects on biodiversity and ecosystem services. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Nutrient Network (NutNet) is a grassroots research effort within a coordinated research network comprised of more than 40 grassland sites worldwide. NutNet goals:a) To collect data from a broad range of sites in a consistent manner to allow direct comparisons of environment-productivity-diversity relationships among systems around the world. This is currently occurring at each site in the network and, when these data are compiled, will allow us to provide new insights into several important, unanswered questions in ecology. b) To implement a cross-site experiment requiring only nominal investment of time and resources by each investigator, but quantifying community and ecosystem responses in a wide range of herbaceous-dominated ecosystems (i.e., desert grasslands to arctic tundra). ... [Information of the supplier]
The Network of Knowledge BiodiversityKnowledge is being developed and communicated by the EU-project KNEU - Developing a Knowledge Network for EUropean expertise on biodiversity and ecosystem services to inform policy making economic sectors, funded under FP7 as coordination action (Grant No.265299). The project comprises a consortium of 18 leading institutions in Europe on biodiversity and ecosystem services research and governance. The consortium understands itself as a facilitator in developing the Network of Knowledge, aiming at a broad involvement from partners across the biodiversity knowledge landscape. ... [Information of the supplier]
Nach den Bakterien sind Pilze die am weitesten verbreitete Lebensform der Erde. Sie finden sich in der Tiefsee und im Hochgebirge, in Gesteinen und im Wasser, auf und in anderen Lebewesen, in Wüsten, Regenwäldern und an den Polen. Sie sind artenreicher als Pflanzen, Fische und Säugetiere zusammen, und Schätzungen zufolge sind mindestens 90 % ihrer Arten noch unentdeckt. Doch bereits mit dem kleinen Anteil der Arten, der derzeit wirtschaftlich genutzt wird, werden Hunderte von Milliarden Euro erwirtschaftet, sowohl in der Lebensmittelproduktion als auch in der Pharmaindustrie. Auch zahlreiche zelluläre Prozesse wurden erstmals an Pilzen entdeckt. Allerdings ist die grundlagen- und anwendungsorientierte Forschung auf nur wenige Organismen beschränkt und lässt das große Potenzial der Diversität bekannter und noch unbekannter Pilze ungenutzt. Ziel des LOEWE Schwerpunktes für Integrative Pilzforschung (IPF) ist es daher, die Expertise im Bereich der Diversitätsforschung und Modellorganismen-basierter Forschung in synergistischer Weise zusammenzuführen, so dass es zu einer nachhaltigen Stärkung der hessischen Wirtschaft und Forschung in einem expandierenden Forschungsfeld mit großem wissenschaftlichem und wirtschaftlichem Potenzial kommt. ... [Information des Anbieters]