Project description:The study is intended to collect specimens to support the application of genome analysis technologies, including large-scale genome sequencing. This study will ultimately provide cancer researchers with specimens that they can use to develop comprehensive catalogs of genomic information on at least 50 types of human cancer. The study will create a resource available to the worldwide research community that could be used to identify and accelerate the development of new diagnostic and prognostic markers, new targets for pharmaceutical interventions, and new cancer prevention and treatment strategies. This study will be a competitive enrollment study conducted at multiple institutions.
Project description:We use Illumina sequencing to monitor mutations in the bacteriophage T7 genome in the presence of T7 DNA polymerase that has an altered exonuclease active site. These alterations include mutation of key residues in the exonuclease active site.