SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Affymetrix Inc. (Nasdaq: AFFX) today announced that a team from Affymetrix Laboratories has been awarded a $10.2 million scale-up grant over the next four years from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), as part of the expanded ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project. The grant is part of a project involving 16 multinational research centers that totals more than $80 million. The goals of the ENCODE project are to identify the various functional regions found across the human genome and to develop new high-throughput technologies associated with this task.
