date:Jul 13, 2012
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Univ. of California, Davis, Agilent Technologies Inc. and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will participate in the project, which has been named The 100K Genome Project which will be a five-year effort to sequence the genetic code of approximately 100,000 foodborne pathogens and make the information available to the public in a free database. The sequencing will include genomes ofSalmonella,ListeriaandE. coli.
This important project will harne