$25M grant funds JAX's genetics database
The Jackson Laboratory has received a $24.6 million federal grant to continue operating its genetic information database.
The five-year grant from the National Institute of Health will fund the Mouse Genome Database, an open-source database the lab maintains to provide genetics information to researchers and scientists around the world, according to the Bangor Daily News. Jackson Lab will use the money to make the database more user-friendly, provide technical support and user training, and compile genome information on mice and humans. The database program employs 35 people at Jackson Lab, and it receives nearly 9 million hits a week. Jackson Lab professor Janan Eppig said the database is used by scientists studying human disease and biology, and that its goal is "to facilitate use of the mouse and to enable development of new hypotheses for new discoveries in human medicine."
The funding is important at a time when other federal sources are shrinking, lab officials said.
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