Genome project
Genome projects are scientific endeavours that aim to map the genome of a living being or of a species (be it an animal or a plant or a fungus or a bacteria or an archaea or a protist) or a virus, that is, the complete set of genes caried by this living being or virus. The Human Genome Project was such a project. Some have argued that the era of genomics is one of the more fundamental advances in human history.
Example genome projects
Many organisms have genome projects that have either completed or will complete in the 21st century, including:
- Homo sapiens Humans
- Mus musculus Laboratory mouse
- Rattus norvegicus Laboratory rat
- Chimp
- Macropus eugenii Kangaroo
- Felis domesticus Cat
- Canus lupis Dog
- Drosophila melanogaster Fruit fly
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Yeast
- Arabidopsis thaliana Mustard weed
- Oryza sativa Rice
- Triticum spp Wheat
- Zea mays Maize (or corn)
- Escherichia coli bacterium E.coli
- SARS virus
- Arbacia punctulata the purple-spined sea urchin
- Caenorhabditis elegans a nematode worm
- Brachydanio rerio Zebrafish
- Xenopus laevis The African clawed toad
- Oryzias latipes A medakafish
- Fugu rubipres A pufferfish
See also
| Topics within genomics |
| Genome project | Glycomics | Human Genome Project | Proteomics | Structural genomics |
| Bioinformatics | Systems biology |