{"id":6026,"date":"2014-07-19T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T15:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6026"},"modified":"2014-07-19T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T15:32:00","slug":"british-government-picks-illumina-to-sequence-100000-genomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6026","title":{"rendered":"British Government Picks Illumina to Sequence 100,000 Genomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/528946\/british-government-picks-illumina-to-sequence-100000-genomes\/\">Antonio Regaldo<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The British government says that it plans to hire the U.S. gene-sequencing company Illumina to sequence 100,000 human genomes in what is the largest national project to decode the DNA of a populace.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;In a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Illumina said it had been picked as the \u201cpreferred partner\u201d for the \u00a3100 million project.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Genomics England confirmed that it had chosen the California company to carry out the sequencing project. \u201cWe\u2019ve been through the \u2018bake-off\u2019 process to find the right company to do the sequencing, and will now be entering detailed negotiations,\u201d says Vivienne Parry, a spokesperson for Genomics England.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonio Regaldo: The British government says that it plans to hire the U.S. gene-sequencing company Illumina to sequence 100,000 human genomes in what is the largest national project to decode the DNA of a populace.&nbsp;&nbsp;In a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Illumina said it had been picked as the \u201cpreferred partner\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6027,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026\/revisions\/6027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}