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Human Genome News Archive Edition
Vol.10, No.3-4   October 1999 
Available in PDF 
 
In this issue... 

DOE '99 Oakland Highlights
* Meeting Intro
 * HGP Progress, Challenges
* Joint Genome Institute
* JGI Facility Opening
* Sequencing
* Device Speeds Sequencing
* Chromosome 19 Genes
* Functional Genomics
 * Sample Prep System
* Informatics
* Education & Bioethics
* Microbial Genomes
* Next Meeting Feb. 2000

Genome Project
 * Accelerated Timetable
 * FY1999 Budgets
* JGI Refits Facility
* Progress

In the News 
* Drosophila Near Completion
* Directors, Researchers Receive Awards
* Chromosomes 21, 22 Near Finish
* Human MHC Region Sequenced
 * Mouse Probes Aid Mapping
* Genetic Testing Committee
* DOE Labs & Biomedicine
* Biomedical Engineering Proposals
* Drug Firms Create SNP Resource
* SBIR 1999 Awards
* HUGO News
* 1999 Hollaender Winners

Microbial Genomics 
* EcoCyc Database for E. coli
* Developing EcoCyc
* Thermotoga Sequence
* Clostridium Sequenced
* Microbial Gene Finder
* Neisseria Sequence
* Microbial Web Sites

Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
* Education, Counseling Foundation
* ELSI Studies
* ELSI Retrospective
* Protecting Privacy

Informatics 
* MGI 2.2 Released
* DNA Repository

Web, Other Resources, Publications 
* Metabolic Pathways
* New Staden Package
 * PDB Newsletter
 * Polymorphism Database
 * Bacterial Protein Database
 * DOE BER Publications
 * HGP Information Web
 * Biotechnology Business Webs
* Behavioral Genetics
* Office of Science Reports
* Articles on Genetics

Funding 
* Genome Research Funding

Meeting Calendars & Acronyms 
* Genome & Biotech Meetings 
* Training Courses & Workshops 
* Acronyms 

*HGN archives & subscriptions 
*HGP Information home

Resources

DOE BER Program, Symposium Publications

Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium

Serving Science and Society into the New Millennium was a 1997 symposium sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Research Council to celebrate the 50th anniversary of DOE's Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program. Three publications growing out of this meeting are available.

Color booklet profiling 13 scientists recognized with Exceptional Service Awards (39pp., paper and electronic). 1999. [Print copies: HGMIS*; online: www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/berawards]

Color brochure highlighting some major BER achievements (14 pp., paper and electronic). 1999. [Print copies: HGMIS*; online: www.er.doe.gov/production/ober/ber50.html]

Meeting proceedings, including transcripts of plenary talks (156pp., paper). 1998. [National Academy Press: 888/624-6242 or 202/334-3313, Fax: -2451, amerchan@nas.edu, http://www.nap.edu/info/browse.htm (search on "Serving Science and Society")]

Research Program

A Vital Legacy, an attractive 50-year progress report on the revolutionary program that gave rise to the Human Genome Project, is in PDF format on the Web (www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/publications.shtml#vital). Suitable for both lay and scientific audiences. [Print copies: HGMIS.*]

*Human Genome Management Information System (HGMIS)
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Oak Ridge,TN 37830

The electronic form of the newsletter may be cited in the following style:
Human Genome Program, U.S. Department of Energy, Human Genome News (v10n3-4).

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