genome project

collocation in English

meaningsofgenomeandproject

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genome
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdʒiː.nəʊm/
us
/ˈdʒiː.noʊm/
the complete set of genetic material of a human, animal, plant, or other ...
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project
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprɒdʒ.ekt/
us
/ˈprɑː.dʒekt/
a piece of planned work or an activity that is finished over a period of time and intended to achieve a ...
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(Definition ofgenomeandprojectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Structural genomics : beyond the humangenomeproject.
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I am thinking particularly of the humangenomeproject, which will revolutionise the pharmaceutical industry.
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The humangenomeprojectis one of the largest research projects which is taking place today.
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In terms of the subject of the debate, what can we say about the humangenomeproject?
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That potential will always be there as the humangenomeprojectunfolds.
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The humangenomeprojecthas fired more public imagination and concern than, say, superconductivity research, and for understandable reasons.
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For instance, with the completion of the humangenomeproject, people will want to know the facts about their own genetic makeup.
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The humangenomeprojecthas rekindled the notion that even complex behaviors are gene-influenced.
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This has been achieved by conventional computing methods in the search facilities associated with, for example, the humangenomeproject.
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Potential breakthroughs in the humangenomeprojectand the legal definition of life will have a dramatic impact on the duration of payout streams.
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It is the body sought by the humangenomeproject.
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As the size of a givengenomeprojectincreases, methods are employed to partition the entire genome into smaller subunits.
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At the inception of thegenomeproject, none of the means were available for the task of sequencing the three billion base pairs of a human being.
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Underlying the success of the public humangenomeprojectis the vision that all data is available to the community as soon as practical after its generation.
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The reductionist approach produced the humangenomeproject, which has provided no more (and no less) than the chemical structures of all of the molecules directly involved in human inheritance.
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The case of a national humangenomeproject.
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First, the genetic information provided by the humangenomeprojectis too complex to lend itself to the kind of crude social categorizations that were then current.
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Thegenomeproject, moreover, has no notable opponents in bioethics - and it would probably have support even if it did not lavish so much money on bioethics.
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