Since 1998 the Centre National de Génotypage (CNG) has been involved in hundreds of international genetics projects dealing with diverse environmental, biomarker and genetic data directed for the most part to study genes and human diseases. These projects have lead to the development of the Operon system, a feasible bioinformatics platform to centralize scientific software and biomedical data with internal results. In this website, some of the Operon’s functionalities are provided with the aim to give access to genotyping data produced at the CNG. The system is under development, and a more formal release will be further noticed. For more information or comments, please send email to operon@cng.fr.

For the first time, scientists have completely transformed a species of bacteria into another species by transplanting its complete set of DNA. The achievement marks a significant step toward the construction of synthetic life, with applications including the production of clean fuel in as little as a decade.