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Uhlén opens Indian branch office

Published Apr 25, 2007

HPR, the prestigious Swedish genome project conducted by Mathias Uhlén, Professor of Biotechnology at KTH, is now mapping the entire human protein bank at an amazing speed. Now they will also open a branch unit in India, aiming to help classify the 20,000 pictures which this effort produces every day, reports the weekly Ny Teknik in its online edition.

Today the pictorial atlas published by the researchers – which is freely available on the Web – contains some 1.2 million images. Next autumn they are expected to have reached over 2 million. A database also contains information on the antibodies developed. Check the Atlas at:

www.proteinatlas.org

– We are now increasing the image production from 10,000 pics a day to 20,000, says Prof. Uhlén.

Prior to insertion in the Bank every image has to include a form with basic data. These data include such items as the human organ shown, whether there is a certain protein represented in it and, if so, the amount of it, and also in what cell type.

This is where the Indian pathologists enter the picture. As the image production is speeded up, the 25 pathologists at Uppsala University are no longer able to cope with this effort alone.

– A new node is therefore being established in Mombay in India, says Mathias Uhlén. Staff from Uppsala will go down there and start training the 20 new pathologists we just hired locally.

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