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CSIR
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ASI
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Detailed explanation-1: -India, led by the CSIR, first sequenced an Indian genome in 2009, it is only now that the organisation’s laboratories have been able to scale up whole-genome sequencing and offer them to the public.
Detailed explanation-2: -The funding supported a number of large sequencing centers including those at Whitehead Institute, the Wellcome Sanger Institute (then called The Sanger Centre) based at the Wellcome Genome Campus, Washington University in St. Louis, and Baylor College of Medicine.
Detailed explanation-3: -Indian initiative on Earth bio-genome sequencing (IIBS) is India’s own bio genome sequencing project. It is also a constituent of Earth Biogenome Project (EBP). It aims to map and sequence genes of all known species of plants and animals in India.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the United States, the researchers were funded by the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health, which created the Office for Human Genome Research in 1988 (later renamed the National Center for Human Genome Research in 1990 and then the National Human Genome Research Institute in 1997).