Weissenbach, Jean
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Genoscope early efforts at automation - Jean Weissenbach
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This meeting brought together the major researchers involved in DNA sequencing since its inception in the 1960s. Prominent guest speakers examined the history of sequencing and how the technology has transformed the biological sciences over the past five decades.
Sequencing began with the British biochemist Fred Sanger, two-time winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. While studying nucleic acids in the early 1960s, Sanger figured out a way to sequence small sections of RNA. This work...
Dates:
2015
Dr. Gerald Rubin Collection: Model Organism Genome Sequencing
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Identifier: GR
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The Dr. Gerald Rubin Collection contains documents pertinent to the Drosophila sequencing project collaboration in 1999, the Celera Genomics collaboration, and correspondence with the Department of Energy concerning support for model organism sequencing.
Dates:
1992-1999
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- Caenorhabditis elegans 1
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- Drosophila Genetics 1