The National Plant Genome Initiative Objectives for 2003-2008 (2002) / Chapter Skim
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in particular cells over the course of the organism's development; methods for determining the entire complement of proteins or smaD-molecule metabolites in a given cell during an organism's development; and an array of functional-genomics tools developed to assign function to single genes and to groups of genes whose protein products act in concert during a process of biologic importance. The functional-genomics tools are increasingly deployed as highthroughput technologies designed to sample an entire genome simultaneously.
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Research and funding priorities in genomics are associated with development of technology platforms and baseline datasets, which often takes place in large technology centers that are explicitly meant to enable a broad research community. Such communities are typically established around research involving one species or a group of related species to leverage the intrinsic power of these organisms, in contrast with the traditional method of designing sets of experiments to test a hypothesis.
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The development of Arabidopsis as the "model plant" continues to enable an explosion of progress in understanding the basic processes of plant biology and has revolutionized plant biotechnology. However, it is clear that no single plant species can serve as a completely unifying experimental model for ad of plant biology.
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across the entire community and devise the most effective ways to satisfy those needs. A committee broadly representative of the plant-biolOO~y community that would take a long-term view of the genomics of economically useful plants could provide essential advice to the Interagency Working Group and sponsors of the NPGI.
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To inform its deliberation, the committee asked experts in the field how to build on current accomplishments in order to address major questions in plant biology and to consider whether progress toward that goal might be made by additional sequencing projects (as was emphasized in the first phase of the Initiative) or alternatively by using other strategies to "mine" the sequence data now available to elucidate biological processes and functions.
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