China to Put DNA Sequence Databank on InternetChina has made a test run of putting its first DNA Sequence Databank on the Internet.The databank, a state-financed information platform, will be officially opened on the Internet by the end of the year. The databank was developed by the Shanghai Life Science Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Human Genome Research Center of the Southern Institute of Genetics. The databank contains some one billion subunits of gene data including human genome data and gene maps of rice and some livestock. The databank is also expected to share and reprocess data from some foreign databanks in China. |
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