MAULIK@BIONET-20.ARPA (12/13/87)
From: Sunil Maulik <MAULIK@BIONET-20.ARPA> BIONET Users: The congressional Office of Technology Assessment is conducting a study of mapping and sequencing the human genome. The basic issues addressed are whether Congress should support a concerted research effort on the human genome, and if so, how it should be organized, funded, and coordinated within domestic agencies and with international research efforts. The genome project staff has completed an initial draft of the report that is being sent out for review, and we thought it would be useful to solicit the comments of the BIONET community. We will be placing the text of the overview chapter into contributed software where you can access it by file name (genome.text). Your comments and suggestions can be transmitted to us via e-mail on BIONET (cook- deegan.courteau), or mailed to Dr. Robert Cook-Deegan, Biological Applications Program, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C. 20510-8025. If you are interested in reviewing other chapters of the report, please write and let us know which ones to send you (table of contents is listed below). Chapter 1. Summary (to be completed later) Chapter 2. Introduction and Overview Chapter 3. Technologies for Mapping DNA Chapter 4. Applications to Research in Biology and Medicine Chapter 5. Ethical Implications Chapter 6. Agencies and Organizations in the United States Chapter 7. Options for Organizational Structure Chapter 8. International Efforts Appendices (to be prepared) Appendix A. Participant in OTA workshops Appendix B. Memebers of national advisory panels on the human genome Appendix C. Topics of OTA contract reports [List of OTA contract reports; those not known to be in press elsewhere will be released to the National Technical Information Service in December] Appendix D. Databases and Repositories in molecular biology Appendix E. Cost data on human genome projects Appendix F. Bibliometric data on mapping and sequencing Appendix G. Glossary. Your comments and suggestions will be most useful if they are received by December 17 at the latest. Please remember that the report is still in draft form, and must not be quoted, cited, or reproduced. Thank you. Jacqueline Courteau Research Assistant Biological Applications Program, OTA -------