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Funding for Tsetse Genome Sequencing in the USA

Funding for Tsetse Genome Sequencing in the USA. Neil Hall TIGR (soon to be renamed JCVI). But I am soon to be leaving to go to The University of Liverpool anyway. Genomics funding in the US. All (99.9%) of medical sequencing is funded by two NIH contracts.

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Funding for Tsetse Genome Sequencing in the USA

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  1. Funding for Tsetse Genome Sequencing in the USA Neil Hall TIGR (soon to be renamed JCVI) But I am soon to be leaving to go to The University of Liverpool anyway

  2. Genomics funding in the US • All (99.9%) of medical sequencing is funded by two NIH contracts. • Microbial Sequencing Contact – TIGR, Broad. • National Human Genome Research Institute, TIGR/JCVI, Broad, WashU, Agencourt, Baylor • MSC – Pathogens, parasites, Vectors • But has turned down a white paper on Glossina • NHGRI – Models and genomes of evolutionary importance. • Pathogen and vector databases funded through the NIAID-BRCs

  3. Informatics funded through MSC and BRCs

  4. Changes to NHGRI Mission • Three centers not five • Must promote “new sequencing technology” • Previous award involved understanding the human genome. • Now it must address “human health” • Will now actively seek to sequence pathogens, parasites and vectors

  5. Getting your genome sequenced • White papers must give a rational and a strategy

  6. Caveats • NHGRI will give your genome to someone you don’t know. • Sequence will be generated but no informatics is funded. • The timescale is dictated by NHGRI • Must coordinate with the Sanger. • Must make a rational argument for a finished sequence. • Why is 3x not enough!

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