Drug Development

Tool Could Form Largest Human Genome Database Ever Published

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, July 7th, 1997

Silicon Graphics Sub-Saharan Africa and the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) at the University of the Western Cape announced that they have developed a tool for drug discovery in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.

The tool is an enormous database composed of DNA coding sequences for hundreds of thousands of human gene fragments and is the first piece of what could be the largest human genome coding fraction ever published. Called Sequence Tag Alignment and Consensus Knowledgebase (STACK), the database helps scientists around the world shorten the drug discovery process.

SANBI scientists used Silicon Graphics...

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