date:Jul 17, 2012
The 100K Genome Project is a collaboration between FDA, the University of California/Davis, and Agilent Technologies - a company that manufactures equipment for electronic and bio-analytical measurement.
The CDC and the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) have also joined the initiative.
The genomic sequencing will be done at a new facility at UC Davis that will coordinate the overall effort. As the gene sequences are completed, they will be stored in the Nat