TIGR

British

abbreviation

Also called: Tiger. Treasury Investment Growth Receipts: a bond denominated in dollars and linked to US treasury bonds, the yield on which is taxed in the UK as income when it is cashed or redeemed

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Today, four years later, a total of 20 genomes have been fully decoded, 10 of them at TIGR.

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What Venter saw was the future: a gene-mapping computer 50 times as fast as anything running at TIGR.

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Other labs were now in the shotgunning game--though of the 30 or so organisms decoded to date, two-thirds were decoded by TIGR, with results that are generally acknowledged to be of high quality.

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