Andthemainresearchprograms of theinstituteincludemammaliangenecollection, geneticvariation, genomeinformaticsandcomputationalbiology, genome technologyand so on.
At the recent Advances in Genome Biology and Technology in Marco Island, Florida, the focus was on the new, low-end machines like MiSeq and the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine, which was the subject of this Forbes cover story.
Indeed, how else to explain why Honda has studied the maddeningly evasive cockroach (for anticollision technology), decoded the rice genome (to increase crop yields and create more-productive crops for biofuels) and developed a robot that can get instructions by reading human brain waves (to learn how machines and humans can better coexist).