RIKEN chooses Helicos single molecule sequencing for global map of human promoters
The FANTOM project is the brainchild of Yoshihide Hayashizaki, who launched the first phase of the project in 2000. The cDNA encyclopedia of mouse full-length cDNAs generated in the FANTOM1, 2 and 3 projects remains to this day the largest collection of mammalian full-length cDNAs. FANTOM3 provided insights into non-coding RNAs and sense-antisense regulation. It also introduced the CAGE technique, developed by Piero Carninci, which generates sequence tags from the 5’ ends of capped RNAs. In FANTOM4, CAGE was applied to an acute myeloid leukemia cell line undergoing monocytic differentiation. Using CAGE and transcription factor binding site predictions, a transcriptional regulatory model was generated which identified the key transcription factors involved in monocytic differentiation. FANTOM5 takes this one huge leap further by trying to generate transcriptional regulatory models to define every human cell type.
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