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The Wellcome Library is pleased to announce that several new collections on the theme of genomics are now available to view on site in the Library.

For the past three years the Wellcome Library has been making a concerted effort to collect and catalogue important collections that document the development of genomics in the UK during the twentieth century. The archives cover key events from the latter half of the century including the sequencing of the first entire genome (that of the nematode worm C. elegans), the development of computational analysis to support and improve genome sequencing, and the international Human Genome Project that sequenced the first human genome and made the data freely accessible. In brief, the collections comprise the archives of:

Work is currently underway on cataloguing the papers of Michael Ashburner, a geneticist who worked on sequencing the genome of the fly Drosophila melanogaster and played a key role in ensuring the Drosophila and human genome sequences were publically released. This collection is due to be made available in stages throughout 2015.

For more information on these collections and Library’s work in collecting genomics archives, take a look at some of the Wellcome Library’s blog posts:

Victoria Sloyan
Assistant Archivist – Collecting Genomics
The Wellcome Trust 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
Tel: 020 7611 8582 Email: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to improving health. We support bright minds in science, the humanities and the social sciences, as well as education, public engagement and the application of research to medicine.

Our investment portfolio gives us the independence to support such transformative work as the sequencing and understanding of the human genome, research that established front-line drugs for malaria, and Wellcome Collection, our free venue for the incurably curious that explores medicine, life and art.

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