Sequencing the mammalian transcriptome in toto

哺乳动物基因组计划提供了在全球范围内研究基因的框架，为生物学研究提供了一个巨大的飞跃。该项目将为哺乳动物的每一个主要组织提供人类基因组计划规模的信息，并将为研究界进一步的基因组研究提供世界级的资源。它还将研究过去研究人员看不见的基因调控部分。发现这些规则将为遗传成分病理学提供新的见解，并进一步促进生物技术方法在模型系统中获得特定基因集的表达。

The mammalian genome projects have provided a huge leap forward for biological research by giving the framework to study genes on a global scale. This project will provide human genome project scale information for every major tissue in mammals and will provide the research community with a world class resource to further genomic research. It will also investigate parts of gene regulation which have been invisible to researchers in the past. Discovering these rules will provide novel insights in pathology with a genetic component and provide a further boost to biotechnological approaches to obtain expression of specific sets of genes in model systems.