Wellcome Sanger Institute

The Sanger Prize 2023 is now open

The Prize is an outreach competition for undergraduate students from low- and middle-income countries and allows the winner to experience the very cutting edge of genomic research. The winner receives a three-month internship with a research group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. All essential expenses will be are covered by the award, including travel and visa costs, accommodation and reasonable food costs. ...more

Genomic Surveillance Unit

The Unit supports partners worldwide with practical tools for pandemic preparedness and local infectious disease control.

We develop, run, support and maintain open products: all the way from sample collection in the field, through high-throughput laboratory sequencing, to the delivery and interrogation of analysis-ready data.

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Download the Wellcome Sanger Institute Highlights 2020/21

Our 2021/2022 Highlights document

Over the past year we have provided new insights into human, parasite and microbe evolution, cellular development, and the mutational processes that lead to cancer. We supported the UK's national COVID-19 genomic surveillance efforts and delivered reference genomes for a wide range of UK species as part of the Darwin Tree of Life project ...more

 

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8 Dec 2022

Brazil, bats and GoaT

Find out about Genomes on a Tree (or GoaT) database, which will hold data for the hundreds of thousand of species that are currently having their genomes sequenced for the first time.
Peng He, Kyungtae Lim, Dawei Sun, et al

8 Dec 2022

Developmental Lung Cell Atlas uncovers 144 cell statesย 

Researchers have created a spatial cell atlas of the developing human lung, describing 144 cell types and their interactions in unparalleled ...

8 Dec 2022

Software to sort samples and sequence species at scale

Meet the software developers, informaticians and bioinformaticians who are helping to sequence the DNA of all life on earth.

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8 Dec 1600887574729732096

The developing human lung has been mapped in unprecedented detail, identifying 144 cell types in the early stages of life

Acting as a guidebook to healthy lung development, this can be used to investigate how #lungdiseases originate

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The latest #DarwinTreeOfLife #GenomeNotes are the apple (๐˜”๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ด ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข) and its wild relative the European crab apple (๐‘€๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ข๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘™๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ )๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿ

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New genomes to help protect Britain‘s wild and ancient apples - Wellcome Sanger Institute

The genomes were sequenced at the Wellcome Sanger Institute as part of the Darwin Tree of Life project, a partne...

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6 Dec 1600100309136654337

Can we use โ€œinsect footprintsโ€ ๐Ÿž๐Ÿ ๐Ÿงฌ left behind on flowers ๐ŸŒบ to monitor insect diversity in agricultural systems? Yes we can! Comparison to visual census showed that these non-invasive techniques are complementary. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/edn3.362

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