Discovery and characterization of new classes of small regulatory RNAs in mammals

该项目将通过应用超高通量测序技术来发现调控RNA，从而重申并加强澳大利亚在发展最快的分子生物学和遗传学研究领域的领先地位，从而确定支撑哺乳动物发育、大脑功能和物种多样性的重要调控途径的特征。这一研究成果将在生物技术、遗传工程、动物育种、医学科学和高级信息学等领域具有广泛的意义和应用。

The project will reaffirm and enhance Australian leadership in the most rapidly developing area of molecular biological and genetic research, by the application of ultra high-throughput sequencing technologies to discovery of regulatory RNAs, thereby to identify the characteristics of important regulatory pathways that underpin mammalian development, brain function and species diversity. The results of this research will have wide implications and applications in biotechnology, genetic engineering, animal breeding, medical science and advanced informatics.