Wellcome Sanger Institute

British genomics research institute
Organization research_institute Q1142544
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Wellcome Sanger Institute was founded in 1992. It is a charitable organization. Its headquarters are in Hinxton.

It operates in genomics, bioinformatics, and research. Its parent organization is Wellcome Trust. It had 1.0k employees in 2016.

Wellcome Sanger Institute

Summary

Wellcome Sanger Institute is a research institute[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of research_institute entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (161 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Wellcome Sanger Institute was a member of iRODS Consortium[3].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute is located in Hinxton[4].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute is in the country of United Kingdom[5].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's instance of is recorded as research institute[6].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's instance of is recorded as charitable organization[7].
  • Frederick Sanger is named after Wellcome Sanger Institute[8].
  • Wellcome Trust is named after Wellcome Sanger Institute[9].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's headquarters location is recorded as Hinxton[10].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's headquarters location is recorded as Cambridgeshire[11].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's headquarters location is recorded as United Kingdom[12].
  • The location of Wellcome Sanger Institute was Wellcome Genome Campus[13].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's Commons category is recorded as Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute[14].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's industry is recorded as genomics[15].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's industry is recorded as bioinformatics[16].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's industry is recorded as research[17].
  • 1992 marks the founding of Wellcome Sanger Institute[18].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 52.0775, 'lon': 0.1875}[19].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's parent organization or unit is recorded as Wellcome Trust[20].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's official website is recorded as https://www.sanger.ac.uk/[21].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute[22].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's Commons gallery is recorded as Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute[23].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+1015'}[24].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+1075'}[25].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+1070'}[26].
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+1022'}[27].

Body

Founding

1992 marks the founding of Wellcome Sanger Institute[18].

Operations

Headquarters locations include Hinxton[10], a village[28], in United Kingdom[29]; Cambridgeshire[11], a ceremonial county of England[30], in United Kingdom[31]; and United Kingdom[12], a sovereign state[32], in United Kingdom[33], founded in 1927[34]. Wellcome Sanger Institute's parent organization or unit is recorded as Wellcome Trust[20].

Industry

Industries include genomics[15], bioinformatics[16], and research[17].

Why It Matters

Wellcome Sanger Institute ranks in the top 4% of research_institute entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (161 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

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  1. [5] . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  3. [7] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  15. [3] . irods.org. Retrieved . irods.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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