A Facility for High-Throughput, Functional Gene Discovery Using Arrayed Retroviral Expression Cloning

拟议中的设施将代表功能基因组学领域的世界领先技术，并为澳大利亚科学家提供独特的机会，以确定涉及广泛生物过程的基因。这将有助于哺乳动物生物学的基础知识，同样重要的是，可能识别与癌症、炎症性疾病、脑损伤和糖尿病等重要健康问题有关的基因。这样的基因反过来可能构成新疗法开发的靶点。这一努力将有助于卫生和科学/技术发展领域的国家研究优先事项。

The proposed facility will represent world-leading technology in functional genomics and provide Australian scientists with unique opportunities to identify genes involved in a broad range of biological processes. This will contribute to fundamental knowledge in mammalian biology, and equally importantly, is likely to identify genes involved in important health problems such as cancer, inflammatory disease, brain damage and diabetes. Such genes may in turn constitute targets against which new therapies may be developed. This endeavour will contribute to national research priorities in both the health and scientific/technological development arenas.