GGSAC

The German Genomic Sequence Analysis Consortium

GGSAC was founded by three independent groups, namely

	HZI - Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (Braunschweig) Department of Genome Analysis Head: Helmut Blöcker Further contacts: info.genome@helmholtz-hzi.de http://genome.helmholtz-hzi.de
	Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI, formerly IMB-Jena) Department of Genome Analysis Head: Matthias Platzer Further contacts: info@genome.fli-leibniz.de http://genome.fli-leibniz.de
	MPIMG - Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (Berlin) Department Lehrach Head: Hans Lehrach Further contacts: Richard Reinhardt Ralf Sudbrak http://seq.molgen.mpg.de

Since the early nineties GGSAC's member groups have been involved in many large scale DNA sequencing projects. As most prominent examples may be considered the genomes of yeast, Arabidopsis thaliana, man, chimpanzee, Dictyostelium discoideum, Sorangium cellulosum.

Most of the funding was raised from public sources, in particular from the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

GGSAC is a founding member of the International Sequencing Consortium (http://www.intlgenome.org/).

GGSAC will follow two major lines of investigations:

de novo sequencing and analysis to unravel genomic evolution
(re-)sequencing of medically important regions of the human genome and the genomes of model organisms (www.resequencing.mpg.de)

Contacts for this page: info.genome@helmholtz-hzi.de