A severe depression forces a neurologist to end his career; his life is turned upside down. He decides to investigate the causes...   This is the starting point of the documentary Das Dunkle Gen (The Dark Gene) directed by Miriam Jakobs...

ELIXIR has been awarded €19 million from the EU to accelerate the implementation of Europe’s life-science data infrastructure over the next four years. From September 2015, ‘ELIXIR-EXCELERATE’ will facilitate the integration of Europe’s...

Researchers from the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG) and the German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH) have published a paper in BMC Genomics highlighting the power of mouse exome sequencing and analysis to identify mutations and genes related to certain phenotypes.
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On April 14, 2015 the CNAG organised the workshop Introduction to Genome Analysis to help collaborators get a better understanding and improve interpretation of genome data. It was the first of the workshops that the CNAG will offer to current and prospective collaborators.

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The first project to sequence the entire genome of the mountain gorilla has given scientists and conservationists a new insight into the impact of the decline in the population of these endangered apes that inhabit central Africa. Mountain gorillas are extensively inbred and the research published...

The Population Genomics team focuses on in-depth genomic analyses and development of bioinformatics tools to answer questions in population genetics and the application of these techniques in...