10-07-2012, 04:59 PM
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This project Genome 10K is one of the greatest projects on earth due to some unique reasons. This project is just not only to understand how complex animal life evolved through changes in genome or DNA but also to use this knowledge to become better stewards of the planet !
Here are few developments of this project :-
In Nov 2009, the inaugural publication was done on this topic in the “Journal of Hereditary”.
This was the most cited article in 2009 with almost 75 citations and was the third most downloaded article in the history of Journal of Hereditary. The subject genomic mapping of 10,000 vertebrate species in itself is great and the developments in this are being highly appreciated worldwide.
Thereafter, from almost 16,000 vertebrate species, the project Genome 10K successfully cataloged specimens. After this, the first official announcement was made for successful sequencing of 101 species. This added to 120 vertebrate’s species those were sequenced by many other public projects of genome sequencing.
With such a huge appreciation from all scientific community for this project, new teams came up and got motivated. The result of such inspiration was that in March 2011, i5K initiative came up and successfully started work with aim of sequencing genome of 5,000 insect’s species!
The next meeting of Genome 10K project is planned in spring of 2013.
With such a great aim of this project, I am very excited to known the new list of species whose genomic sequencing has been done. The new list also includes genomic sequence of Galapagos finches, the large, medium & small ground finch of Geospiza fortis. They were collected first time by Charles Darwin at the time of his second voyage of the Beagle on the Galapagos Island.
Such projects, discoveries and innovations, for me mean that science is a system of decoding the hidden miracles of nature & the dipper you go ,you will leap and bound !
Here are few developments of this project :-
In Nov 2009, the inaugural publication was done on this topic in the “Journal of Hereditary”.
This was the most cited article in 2009 with almost 75 citations and was the third most downloaded article in the history of Journal of Hereditary. The subject genomic mapping of 10,000 vertebrate species in itself is great and the developments in this are being highly appreciated worldwide.
Thereafter, from almost 16,000 vertebrate species, the project Genome 10K successfully cataloged specimens. After this, the first official announcement was made for successful sequencing of 101 species. This added to 120 vertebrate’s species those were sequenced by many other public projects of genome sequencing.
With such a huge appreciation from all scientific community for this project, new teams came up and got motivated. The result of such inspiration was that in March 2011, i5K initiative came up and successfully started work with aim of sequencing genome of 5,000 insect’s species!
The next meeting of Genome 10K project is planned in spring of 2013.
With such a great aim of this project, I am very excited to known the new list of species whose genomic sequencing has been done. The new list also includes genomic sequence of Galapagos finches, the large, medium & small ground finch of Geospiza fortis. They were collected first time by Charles Darwin at the time of his second voyage of the Beagle on the Galapagos Island.
Such projects, discoveries and innovations, for me mean that science is a system of decoding the hidden miracles of nature & the dipper you go ,you will leap and bound !
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