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Sri Lankan Human Genome Project The Specialty Board in Biomedical Informatics is proud to announce that it initiated the project and successfully sequenced the first Sri Lankan Human Genome. In 1953 an American James Watson and an Englishman Francis Crick described the elegant structure of our genetic code, the DNA double helix. Fifty years later the ‘Human Genome Project’ succeeded in describing the 3 billion letters that are found in our genetic code completing the Human Genome. The Human Genome Project was an enormous collaboration between six leading nations of the world and over 1000 of the world’s best and the brightest scientists from multitude of fields. It took thirteen years and three billion dollars to complete the project. Advances in technology since then has made it possible today to sequence a Human Genome in a very short period of time, at a fraction of the cost, and with minimal manpower. The Sri Lankan Human Genome Project was launched using illumina sequencing technology in collaboration with the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India by the Specialty Board in Biomedical Informatics of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo. The first Sri Lankan Human Genome sequenced came from a Sinhalease man with both upcountry and low country heritage. The project will be extended to cover other ethnicities as well in the years to come. Alignment of the Sri Lankan Human Genome to the NCBI Reference Human Genome, disclosed 3.42 million Single Nucleotide variations including 250,463 novel variations and 488,921 deletion or insertion polymorphisms (InDels). The Biomedical Informatics group will continue to analyze the data generated to make sense of the vast amount of information available in the Sri Lankan Human Genome. The data were made accessible to all scientific groups in the country to analyse, explore, and make their discoveries freely available to the scientific and the medical communities. The Sri Lankan Human Genome is Sri Lanka’s contribution to the growing pool of scientific knowledge on genomes. With the launch of the Sri Lankan Human Genome, genetic research in Sri Lanka has truly entered the post genomic era. Let us join hands to ensure that the scientific discoveries that we make when we analyse our genome benefit the Sri Lankan society at large. The Sri Lankan Human Genome can be accessed at http://www.srilankangenome.net. 41 | P a g e
Prof. Vajira H. W. Dissanayake presenting the Sri Lankan Human Genome at the Human Genome Meeting 2011 in Dubai, UAE on 14 March 2011. Launch of the Sri Lankan Human Genome on 10 December 2010 at the Annual Scientific Sessions of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The hard disk containing the Sri Lankan Human Genome is being handed over to the Senior Minister of Science and Technology Hon. Prof. Tissa Vitharana by Prof. Vajira H. W. Dissanayake and Dr. Rajesh Gokahal, Director IGIB, India. 42 | P a g e
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