Scientists Decode Hamster Genome
September 4, 2013| |
Scientists from Bielefeld University's Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec) in Germany have sequenced the genome of Chinese hamster. The Chinese hamster supplies the cell cultures used by the pharmaceutical industry to produce biopharmaceutical products such as antibodies used in medicine.
The genome of the Chinese hamster is composed of eleven pairs of chromosomes. Decoding such a large genome calls for the generation of large datasets that then have to be processed with bioinformatics. To facilitate the resulting data analysis, the researchers applied a completely new procedure that sorts the single chromosomes of the genome. More than 1.4 billion short DNA sequences were generated with the help of modern instruments for next-generation sequencing. With approximately 2.3 billion bases, the magnitude of the genome sequence of the Chinese hamster is comparable to that of the human genome.
See Bielefeld University's news release at
http://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/uninews/entry/genome_researchers_at_bielefeld_university.
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