2,000 Influenza Virus Genomes Now Completed and Publicly Accessible

Information Critical to Developing Treatments and Vaccines

The Influenza Genome Sequencing Project, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced today that it has achieved a major milestone. The entire genetic blueprints of more than 2,000 human and avian influenza viruses taken from samples around the world have been completed and the sequence data made available in a public database.

Source: National Institute of Health
February 21, 2007