Sequencing platform provides powerful tool for identifying subtle changes in gene expression
Friday, September 2, 2011 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
In a truly challenging task, the FANTOM5 Consortium, an international collaboration headed by scientists at the RIKEN Omics Science Center in Yokohama, Japan, is striving to profile the regulation of gene expression in every known human cell type. We expect to generate on the order of 3,000 or more [datasets] for this project, says Masayoshi Itoh, a RIKEN scientist involved in the effort. This will capture the majority of human cell types, tissues and cancer subtypes.