Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics

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Chapter 17: The Human Genome

Web resources from Chapter 17
Website URL
The Genome Hub URL at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) http://www.genome.gov/
Human Genome Central-Ensembl http://www.ensembl.org/genome/central/
Human Genome Project ORNL http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/faq/faqs1.html
"Ten facts about the human genome" http://www.sanger.ac.uk/HGP/publication2001/facts.shtml
The NCBI database of SNPs http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/snp_summary.cgi
Celera Genomics http://www.celera.com/
NHGRI http://www.genome.gov/
Genome resources at NCBI http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/About/Doc/hs_genomeintro.html
The human map http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview/map_search.cgi?
Ensembl http://www.ensembl.org
The human database http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/
Statistics for the Ensembl human web server http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/stats/
The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics site http://genome.ucsc.edu/index.html
Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome (1988)
 http://www.nap.edu/books/0309038405/html/index.html
Eight goals of the Human Genome Project http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/hg5yp/goal.html
The Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI) initiative http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/elsi/elsi.html
The NCBI Contig Assembly and Annotation Process http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/build.html
The UCSC genome browser http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/stats.html
Sizes of the human chromosomes http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/H_sapiens.html
A database of imprinted genes http://www.otago.ac.nz/IGC
EBI proteome analysis http://www.ebi.ac.uk/proteome/
The National Human Genome Institute http://genome.gov

 

Tables

Table 17-1. Key web sites for publicly available human genome sequence data.
Resource Description
Ensembl From the EBI and The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
National Center for Biotechnology Information Views of chromosomes, maps, and loci
University of California at Santa Cruz Contains an assembly of the draft genome sequence

Table 17-6. The twenty institutions that form the Human Genome Sequencing Consortium include:
Genome sequencing center Location/description
Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX, USA
Beijing Human Genome Center Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Lita Annenberg Hazen Genome Center Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
Gesellschaft fur Biotechnologische Forschung mbH Braunschweig, Germany
Genoscope Evry, France
Genome Therapeutics Corporation Waltham, MA, USA
Institute for Molecular Biotechnology Jena, Germany
Joint Genome Institute U.S. Department of Energy Walnut Creek, CA, USA
Keio University Tokyo, Japan
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Berlin, Germany
Multimegabase Sequencing Center Institute for Systems Biology Seattle, WA, USA
RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center Saitama, Japan
The Sanger Centre Hinxton, U.K.
Stanford Genome Technology Center Palo Alto, CA, USA
Stanford Human Genome Center Palo Alto, CA, USA
University of Oklahoma's Advanced Center for Genome Technology Norman, OK, USA
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX, USA
University of Washington Genome Center Seattle WA, USA
Washington University Genome Sequencing Center St. Louis, MO, USA
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research MIT Cambridge, MA, USA
Table 17-19. Additional web sites for publicly available human genome sequence data.
Resource Description
National Center for Biotechnology Information Views of chromosomes, maps, and loci
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Views of human genome
RIKEN and the University of Tokyo Overview of the human genome
Washington University Links to clone and accession maps of the human genome
 
 
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