Sector: Health

Dr. Scherer and his team at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children are interested in analyzing one chromosome – human chromosome 7 – and its influence on human disease. The group has been undertaking a systematic analysis of chromosome 7 for the past 15 years and is expanding their work by: identifying the remaining gaps and contributing to the completion of the entire sequence, constructing a gene index map, performing detailed analysis of regions of biological interest, developing a comprehensive genetic map and building analytical and computational tools for annotation of chromosome 7 sequence.