What is the Wellcome Sanger Institute?
Q: What is the Wellcome Sanger Institute?
A: The Wellcome Sanger Institute is a non-profit British genomics and genetics research institute.
Q: Who funds the Wellcome Sanger Institute?
A: The Wellcome Trust mostly funds the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
Q: Where is the Wellcome Sanger Institute located?
A: The Wellcome Sanger Institute is located on the Wellcome Genome Campus near the village of Hinxton, outside Cambridge, and shares the campus with the European Bioinformatics Institute.
Q: Who is the institute named after and why was it established?
A: The institute is named after double Nobel Laureate, Frederick Sanger, and was established in 1992 as a large scale DNA sequencing centre.
Q: What was the Institute's contribution to the Human Genome Project?
A: The Institute took part in the Human Genome Project and made the largest single contribution to the gold standard sequence of the human genome.
Q: What is the Institute's research focus since 2000?
A: Since 2000, the Institute has expanded its mission to understand "the role of genetics in health and disease".
Q: What are the four main areas of research that the Institute does?
A: The four main areas of research that the Institute does are human genetics, pathogen genetics, mouse and zebrafish genetics, and bioinformatics.
