Major research resources

By working with our communities, we expect to make key contributions to the creation, development and maintenance of major research resources.

DECIPHER: A database of genomic disorders
The DECIPHER database, set up at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, is enabling clinicians across the world to share information about their patients, helping both individual patients and researchers unpicking the basis of human genomic disorders.
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Getting into shape: determining 3D protein structures
The Structural Genomics Consortium has deciphered the structures of hundreds of proteins relevant to human health.
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How early life factors influence adolescent and adult health in Brazil
Professor Cesar Victora's studies of cohorts established in 1982 and 1993 are documenting the impacts on the population of a period of social and economic change in Brazil.
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International HapMap Project
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has played a leading role in an international collaborative initiative to map variations in the human genome.
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An oral history of diabetes
Professor David Mathews and Helen Lloyd have developed the award-winning website 'Diabetes Stories', which tells the stories of 50 people diagnosed with diabetes between 1927 and 1997.
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Medical Journals Backfiles Digitisation Project
This project provides free online access to a range of historically significant biomedical journals.
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