Genome kickoff
Published on July 30, 2009
July 30, 2009
FAPESP News – The decoding of the genome of the sugarcane plant is underway in Brazil. At the University of São Paulo, a group of scientists funded by FAPESP’s Program for Research on Bioenergy (BIOEN) recently obtained the first 1.1 million reads using a pyrosequencer, a cutting-edge machine for genetic analysis.
The next test of the machine will begin next week. Due to the large amount and high complexity of the data generated by the new approach, the [...]