Technologies to Find Functional Elements in Genomic Dna

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Technologies to Find Functional Elements in Genomic Dna: The purpose of this RFA is to solicit applications to develop new technologies for the efficient, comprehensive, high-throughput identification and verification of all types of sequence-based functional elements, particularly those other than coding sequences for which adequate methods do not currently exist. This effort is part of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project, the intent of which is to identify all functional elements in the human genome sequence (http://www.genome.gov/10005107 ). This RFA will augment the ongoing work of the ENCODE Consortium, which is (a) conducting a pilot project to test the ability of current methodologies to identify exhaustively the functional elements in a targeted region of the human genome and (b) supporting the development of new technology. Although all aspects of technology development will be considered, the emphasis for this RFA is on the development of completely novel techniques for identifying sequence-based functional elements in the genomes of eukaryotic organisms, especially heretofore uncharacterized elements, rather than on the incremental improvement of existing methods.