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EBI and Sulston Laboratories of the Sanger Institute.

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (formerly the Sanger Centre) is a genome research centre in the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Cambridgeshire, England. It was set up in 1992 by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council, the purpose of which is stated as "to further our knowledge of genomes, and in particular to play a substantial role in the sequencing and interpretation of the human genome. This information will underpin research on human biology and disease in this century and beyond"¹ and was named after the double Nobel Laureate biochemist Frederick Sanger. The Nobel Laureate John Sulston acted as director of the institute upon its inception until 2000.

Besides its involvement in a large number of genome sequencing projects, the institute hosts many different (large-scale) research projects and is regarded as a key player in the international research community.^{citation needed}

The projects include:

• Human Genome Project²
• Cancer Genome Project³
• Genes to Cognition Project⁴
• Ensembl The Ensembl Genome Browser
• Pathogen Sequencing
• Pfam⁵ and Rfam⁶

PhD students trained at the institute are registered at the University of Cambridge.

References

External links

• The Sanger Institute
• About Fred Sanger, biography from the Sanger Institute

Coordinates: 52°05′N 0°11′E / 52.083, 0.183

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