The John Innes Centre receives strategic funding from BBSRC
The John Innes Centre receives strategic funding from BBSRC
Genomics collaboration agreementJanuary 2008 The John Innes Centre has completed an agreement with Cogenics™, a division of Clinical Data, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Cogenics will provide the John Innes Centre (JIC) with gene expression and other genomics services in a solutions-oriented approach. JIC and Cogenics announced the first result of their collaboration - a custom Brassica gene expression microarray, at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego, California, on January 12, 2008. The microarray was developed in conjunction with the J. Craig Venter Institute, and allows researchers to interrogate 91,854 transcribed sequences across multiple Brassica species. Ian Bancroft, Crop Genetics Project Leader and Head of the JIC Genome Laboratory comments that having access to high quality, cost-effective technologies is a high priority for JIC; the partnership provides exciting opportunities to bring more advanced genomics technologies for plant and microbial research into the reach of the wider science community.
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