Special FANTOM2 Issue
- Scientific management of FANTOM consortium Project director for RIKEN mouse genome encyclopedia initiative
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It is my great pleasure to be able to publish a special issue of Genome Research focusing on the functional annotation of mouse cDNA (FANTOM). Publication of this FANTOM special issue is quite timely,as not only the mouse full-length cDNA collection but also the first draft of mouse genome sequences were just published at the end of last year. Moreover,completion of the human genome sequence was announced this spring and entered the next phase. This is a very exciting series of events. In the history of life sciences,the mouse is the first organism for which large-scale analyses of the genome and transcriptome were undertaken at the same time. This data will form the basic platform of life sciences in the 21st century. In this issue,we present papers on FANTOM activity, describing analyses based on the first data for the genome and transcriptome.
The international FANTOM consortium was established to annotate functions for sequences in the full-length cDNA sequence database,which was …
