Title
Current Status on Population Genome Catalogues in different Countries
Authors
Rahul Kumar1* and Sandeep Kumar Dhanda2*
Affiliation
1Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY10032, USA Email: rahuk.aiims@gmail.com; 2Department of Oncology, Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
Email: mdusdhanda@gmail.com; *Corresponding author
Article Type
Editorial
Date
Received March 28, 2020; Accepted April 1, 2020; Published April 30, 2020
Abstract
Genomics has become indispensable for research in the last two decades. Completed and ongoing genome projects such as the UK Biobank, ICGC, TCGA and GenomeAsia100K have helped in research to understand several other life-threatening diseases like cancer. Such initiatives from different countries have offered genomics-based diagnostics and individualized treatments. The Indian has launched an initiative to catalogue the genome sequences of 20,000 individuals, where the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) along with other scientific agencies plan to sequence 10,000 healthy individuals and 10,000 diseased individuals. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) also launched a genome project called “IndiGen”, where they have already sequenced the genome of 1008 individuals in Phase I. This will enable the development of a genome catalogue to introduce novel genomics-based clinical applications.
Keywords
Genomes catalogues, clinical genomics, data initiatives, Bioinformatics
Citation
Kumar & Dhanda, Bioinformation 16(4): 297-300 (2020)
Edited by
P Kangueane
ISSN
0973-2063
Publisher
License
This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
