Recent News
Elaine Mardis and Richard Wilson: Taking Cancer's Genetic Measure
June 30, 2009
It's a faster way to get to "personalized medicine," tailoring treatment to each person's genes.
Roche Applied Sciences Awards Two 10 Gigabase Sequencing Grants
June 25, 2009
Roche Applied Sciences announced today that it is awarding two 10 Gigabase genome sequencing grants — one to a North American research team and another…
$19 million to WU scientists to decode microbe DNA and explore links to disease
June 23, 2009
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis four grants totaling $19 million to explore…
NIH Expands Human Microbiome Project; Funds Sequencing Centers and Disease Projects
June 23, 2009
The Human Microbiome Project has awarded more than $42 million to expand its exploration of how the trillions of microscopic organisms that live in or…
About the Genome Center
The Genome Center at Washington University focuses on the large scale generation and analysis of DNA sequence. We play a leadership role in The Human Genome Project, constructing the clone map and contributing 25% of the finished sequence. To better understand the human genome sequence and to advance… (more)
Technology and Development
Project Spotlight
Genomics of AML
The long-term goal of the "Genomics of AML" program project is to define all the DNA changes that occur in adult AML cells, and to define the importance of these mutations for disease susceptibility, initiation, progression, relapse, and resistance. The short-term goal is to define the most frequently occurring mutations that affect outcomes from treatment, since these are the ones most likely to have an impact on therapy. more
Genome Spotlight
Citrobacter (diversus) koseri
Strain CDC 4225-83 was isolated in 1983 in Maryland where it caused neonatal meningitis. The genome is being sequenced to 8X coverage, using plasmid and fosmid libraries, and will be finished to an error rate of less than 1 per 10,000 bases. more
