Projects

CIGENE is currently involved in a variety of international and national research projects.

International projects include the bovine, Atlantic salmon and cod whole genome sequencing initiatives, one FP6 NoE on ageing (http://www.lifespannetwork.nl/) and one FP7 NoE associated with the Physiome initiative (http://www.physiome.org.nz/) , and three NordForsk projects (sequencing technology in medicine, systems biology of yeast, high throughput SNP assay infrastructure in Atlantic salmon). We are also developing a strong MedCoast Scandinavia collaboration with Chalmers and Gøteborg University on yeast as a model system for combining system dynamics with genetics theory.

On the national level we are a partner in a Storforsk project on water imbalance in the brain, we lead a FriBio project on the modelling of astroglia-neuron interaction in the brain, and we lead two of the four large eScience projects awarded by the Research Council of Norway in 2007 under the eVITA programme. We play a major role in the recently established Norwegian consortium for fish functional genomics (GenoFisk) and head three projects under the umbrella of this initiative (SNP identification and genetic mapping, identification of causative genetic variation and the genetic influence of domesticated salmon on wild salmon). Further, we are engaged in several projects with Norwegian companies in possession of high quality biobank data on cattle, swine and salmon.