Genome project
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Genome projects are scientific endeavours that aim to map the genome of a living being or of a species (be it an animal, a plant, a fungus, a bacterium, an archaean, a protist or a virus), that is, the complete set of genes caried by this living being or virus. The Human Genome Project was such a project. Some have argued that the era of genomics is one of the more fundamental advances in human history.
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Example genome projects
Many organisms have genome projects that have either completed or will complete in the 21st century, including:
- Homo sapiens Humans
- Haemophilus influenzae a bacterium, the first genome ever sequenced
- Mus musculus Laboratory mouse
- Rattus norvegicus Laboratory rat
- Chimp (Pan troglidans)
- Rhesus Macaque Rhesus monkey
- Gallus gallus Chicken
- Macropus eugenii Kangaroo
- Felis domesticus Cat
- Canis lupis Dog
- Drosophila melanogaster Fruit fly
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Yeast
- Neurospora crassa A type of mold
- Arabidopsis thaliana Mustard weed
- Oryza sativa Rice
- Triticum spp Wheat
- Zea mays Maize (or corn)
- Escherichia coli bacterium E.coli
- SARS virus
- Arbacia punctulata the purple-spined sea urchin
- Caenorhabditis elegans a nematode worm
- Brachydanio rerio Zebrafish
- Xenopus laevis The African clawed toad
- Oryzias latipes A medakafish
- Takifugu rubipres A pufferfish
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See also
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External links
- National Center for Biotechnology Information Genome Project Database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=genomeprj)
| Genomics topics |
| Genome project | Glycomics | Human Genome Project | Proteomics | Structural genomics |
| Bioinformatics | Systems biology |
