Canada increases support for genome initiative

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Date accessed: 15 March 2001

Nature 410, 138 - 139 (2001) © Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

08 March 2001

[MONTREAL] Federal funding for Genome Canada, the non-profit-making corporation that aims to make Canada a world leader in genomics research, has been increased to Can$300 million (US$194 million) from the Can$160 committed in last year's budget to establish the agency.

The bulk of the funds will support research and development in five new regional centres in British Columbia, the prairie provinces, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada, with 10% set aside to run the national organization. The centres will focus on activities such as functional genomics, genomics sequencing, genotyping, functional proteomics and bioinformatics. Ethical, legal and societal issues related to these fields will also be studied.

Categories: 32. Genome Project and Genomics, 54. Proteomics