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.
Example genome projects
Many organisms have genome projects that have either completed or will complete in the 21st century, including:
- Humans, Homo sapiens; see Human genome project
- Haemophilus influenzae, an influenza-causing bacterium (the first genome ever fully sequenced)
- Common House Mouse, Mus musculus
- Brown Rat, Rattus norvegicus
- Common Chimpanzee Pan troglodytes
- Rhesus Macaque, Macaca mulatta
- Domestic Chicken, Gallus gallus
- Tammar Wallaby, Macropus eugenii
- Domestic Cat, Felis silvestris
- Domestic Dog, Canis lupus familiaris
- Common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster
- Baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Red bread mold, Neurospora crassa
- Thale Cress, Arabidopsis thaliana
- Rice, Oryza sativa
- Common Wheat, Triticum aestivum
- Maize, Zea mays
- Escherichia coli, a coliform bacterium
- SARS virus
- Purple-spined sea urchin, Arbacia punctulata
- Caenorhabditis elegans a nematode worm
- Zebra Danio, Brachydanio rerio
- African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis
- Oryzias latipes, a medakafish
- Tiger blowfish Takifugu rubipres
See also
External links
| Genomics topics |
| Genome project | Glycomics | Human Genome Project | Proteomics | Structural genomics |
| Bioinformatics | Systems biology |
