New Approach Will Analyze Important, Poorly Studied Areas of
Human Genome Madison, Wisconsin - Each year, more and more
pieces of the human genome puzzle fall into place, but large
holes still remain. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison hope to fill in many more pieces with a new $1.1 million
grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
The grant will support a School of Medicine and Public Health
team of researchers who have created new computational tools to
analyze important yet poorly studied areas of the human genome.
“We have developed new statistical methods that will help
biologists look at the data more easily and effectively,” says
Dr. Sunduz Keles, associate professor of biostatistics and
medical informatics who is one of three principal investigators
on the project. “We hope that looking at the human genome data
with our methods will contribute significantly to the human
genome puzzle.” The Human Genome Project, completed in 2003,
produced the identity of the ent