CIGENE aims to contribute to a deep causal understanding of complex genetic characters in fish, plants and animals for scientific and commercial exploitation based on an integrative genetics approach. As a core facility under the Norwegian Functional Genomics Programme (FUGE), CIGENE is also responsible for providing a national service for detection, typing and interpretation of SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms), and for systems-oriented computational biology.
Our Concept
The search for principles and methodologies that link the behaviours of molecules (i.e. genes) to system characteristics and functions (i.e. phenotypes) has been the prime occupation of genetics for the last 100 years. We do not think it is appropriate to introduce new terms like systems biology, bioinformatics or computational biology to describe this endeavour. To pay due credit to the immense efforts and achievements of the genetics community, while at the same time recognizing that genetics is undergoing a dramatic transition, we have coined the term integrative genetics.
Partners
Strongly reflecting the fact that in functional genomic research the majority of classical conceptual and methodological distinctions between production biology, evolutionary biology and biomedical research break down, CIGENE's activities are based on active contributions from:
• Norwegian School of Veterinary Science
• Institute of Aquaculture Research
• University of Oslo
• Norwegian Computing Centre
• Norwegian Radium Hospital
• Norwegian Food Research Institute
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
