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01/08/2023

TRANSGENE project concludes with two final publications

March 2022 witnessed the end of the European Research Council grant that has funded the activity of TRANSGENE over the last five and a half years. The main task of the team during the last phase of the project was finalising two publications that reflect the overall results of our investigation: a special issue in the journal Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences and a research monograph in the series Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History of Palgrave Macmillan.
24/08/2022

Can data be investigated across domains?

A question that has persistently been in our heads while developing the TRANSGENE project is whether the conclusions that we draw for genomic databases are applicable to other forms of big data. With this in mind, towards the end of the project we organised an international workshop to address potential synergies and incommensurabilies in the study of data produced in different domains.
23/02/2022

New TRANSGENE publications across yeast, human and pig

Two articles and a book chapter arising from the TRANSGENE project are now accepted or published
16/01/2022

TRANSGENE project on (online) tour again

The Covid-19 pandemic substantially halted the dissemination activities of the TRANSGENE project. With the exception of some online events, most academic conferences were either cancelled or postponed until travel and lockdown restrictions were eased.

16/01/2022

Exploring NHS England’s Genomic Medicine Service through PanelApp

The author of this blogpost is a PhD student co-supervised by the Principal Investigator and Senior Research Fellow of the TRANSGENE team.

16/01/2022

Investigating the barcoding of life

In the TRANSGENE project, the main focus has been on the history of genomics, focusing chiefly on the organisation of concerted projects based on DNA sequencing.

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16/01/2022

Discussing datasets at the global digital history of science festival

Before the intervention of the coronavirus pandemic, we had planned to host a symposium discussing the development, use and re-use of the kinds of large datasets generated by the TRANSGENE project.
16/01/2022

Following the footprints of biotechnology in Munich

The datasets that our project has collected on submissions and publications of DNA sequences documented Munich as a central institution across the three species we are investigating: Homo sapiens, the pig Sus scrofa and the baker and brewer’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 
Network data
16/01/2022

Interpreting network and quantitative data in the TRANSGENE project

We have compiled datasets detailing DNA sequence submissions from different institutions, lists of publications derived from those sequence submissions, conducted oral history interviews and examined personal and institutional archives.
16/01/2022

New publication - 'Genetics without genes'

A new paper arising out of the collaborative phase of the TRANSGENE project, has now been published.

16/01/2022

Website update to reflect project’s achievements

As we enter the last phase of the TRANSGENE project, we have updated our website to reflect the shifts in the way we have been thinking about and studying genomics research.
DNA strands
16/01/2022

Project enters into its final phase

The TRANSGENE project has now entered into its last phase, which will run until the end of the grant, in September 2021. The main objective until the conclusion of the project is the submission of a monograph to Palgrave Macmillan provisionally entitled 'A History of Genomics across Species and Projects'