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
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