We curated more than 300 different studies from a wide range of mouse cell line models to create a compendium that covered 84 transcription factors
- Professor Bertie Gottgens
A new initiative called HAEMCODE (developed by the Haematopoietic Stem Cell Lab at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and hosted by the Wellcome Trust and MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) demonstrates how community-based science can improve our understanding of the functions of genes – and, in particular, the mechanisms that determine the function of normal and abnormal blood cells.
Large scale DNA sequencing efforts were first initiated over 30 years ago following the conception of the Human Genome Project, with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute just outside of Cambridge making numerous key contributions to this initial era of genome research.
Image: Sequencing Blood Cells
Credit: Gottgens Laboratory
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Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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