A new five-year plan for the U. S. human genome project

Journal Article · Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993 · Science (Washington, D.C.); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.8211127· OSTI ID:5198362

Collins, F ^[1]; Galas, D ^[2]

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1. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (United States)
2. Office of Health and Environmental Research, Washington, DC (United States)

Progress toward achieving the first set of goals for the genome project appears to be on schedule or, in some instances, even ahead of schedule. Furthermore, technological improvements that could not have been anticipated in 1990 have in some areas changed the scope of the project and allowed more ambitious approaches. Earlier this year, it was therefore decided to update and extend the initial goals to address the scope of genome research beyond the completion of the original 5-year plan. A major purpose of revising the plan is to inform and provide a new guide to all participants in the genome project about the project's goal. To obtain the advice needed to develop the extended goals, NIH and DOE held a series of meetings with a large number of scientists and other interested scholars and representatives of the public, including many who previously had not been direct participants in the genome project. Reports of all these meetings are available from the Office of Communications of the National Center for Human Genome Research (NCHGR) and the Human Genome Management Information System of DOE. Finally, a group of representative advisors from MIH and DOE drafted a set of new, extended goals for presentation to the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research of NIH and the Health and Environmental Research Advisory Committee of DOE.

• OSTI ID: 5198362
• Journal Information: Science (Washington, D.C.); (United States), Vol. 262:5130; ISSN 0036-8075
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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