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Human chromosome 14
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Tetraodon genome
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Mosquito genome
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Grape genome |
Paramecium tetraurelia |
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 Founded in 1997 in Evry,
near Paris, Genoscope - the French National
Sequencing Center - is a research facility which
serves the scientific community. Its purpose is to
acquire (to "sequence") and to analyse genetic
information from various organisms of scientific,
medical or industrial interest.
In practical
terms, sequencing consists of determining the
order of the elementary molecules (the nucleotides,
designated by the letters A, T, G, C) that makes
DNA. Genoscope produces various types of data -
entire or partial sequences of genomes or
expression products of genes - which are compared
and interpreted. Like other sequencing centers in
the world, Genoscope performs the DNA sequencing
operations on a large scale, following an
industrial-like organization that is cost-saving
and makes it possible to tackle the complexity of
large genomes. The center has achieved the
sequencing of the 87 million nucleotides of human
chromosome 14, the French contribution to the "Human Genome Project".
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