Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0454228

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0454228

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The multiplexed diagnosis of arbovirus infections using combinatorial probes. Viruses that cause serious diseases such as hemorrhagic fever or encephalitis must be quickly identified. Diagnostic tests based on DNA hybridisation are accurate and can be rapid but they are expensive. We will test a method for simplifying DNA tests and increasing their capabilities. DNA probes for detecting arboviruses will be designed at the ANU using new bioinformatic methods and their reliability will be modelled using all the available genetic information. Computer predictions will be experimentally tested in the PANBIO laboratory by using the probes to detect viral nucleic acids. The influence of virus genome complexity will be investigated

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-09-2004

End Date: 05-07-2007

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $300,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Molecular Evolution | Diagnostic Applications | Virology | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Infectious diseases | Diagnostics | Diagnostics |

Other Keywords

Diagnostic Applications | Diagnostics | Genetics | Infectious diseases | Molecular Evolution | Virology

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