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What are the consequences of establishing archives of nucleic acid sequence data?
The data were immediately accessible in a form suitable for computer analysis and freely available to all researchers.
When were the three nucleic acid sequence archives founded?
In the 1980s.
Who funded GenBank?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the National Library of Medicine.
Who funded EMBL-Bank?
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
Who funded the DNA Databank of Japan (DDBJ)?
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science.
What are the key factors that characterized the rise of genomics?
Technological and scientific innovations, novel practices in data dissemination, increase in computational power, and electronic communication.
What were the consequences of establishing nucleic acid sequence archives in the 1980s?
The data were immediately accessible for computer analysis and freely available to all researchers.
Name the three nucleic acid sequence archives founded in the 1980s and their respective funders.
GenBank, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the National Library of Medicine; EMBL-Bank, funded by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory; and the DNA Databank of Japan (DDBJ), funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Scienc.
What were the critical components for the success of the field of genomics?
The coincident increase in computational power and electronic communication.
What was the role of the scientific community in Europe and the United States in the early 1980s?
Establishing archives of nucleic acid sequence data.
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