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Human Genome News, Jan.-Feb. 1995; 6(5):17
2013 post-production note: GDB (Wikipedia) is no longer operational. See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/guide/human/index.shtml
GDB and OMIM are available via WWW from the GDB Home Page (http://www.gdb.org.) To become a registered user of GDB and OMIM, contact one of the User Support offices listed below (a user may register to access both Baltimore and a remote node). Questions, problems, or user-registration requests may be sent by telephone, fax, or e-mail. User-registration requests should include name, institutional affiliation, and title (if applicable), street address (no P.O. box numbers), telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address.
The Help Line in Baltimore is staffed from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST for information on accounts and training courses, technical support, and data questions. Calls received after hours will be forwarded to the appropriate voice mail and returned as soon as possible.
GDB, OMIM Training Schedule
A "GDB/OMIM and Genomic Data on the Internet" class will be held in Baltimore on March 20-21, 1995, and June 5-6, 1995. These courses offer thorough coverage of the structure, content, and roles of GDB and OMIM; discuss the strengths and weaknesses of various interfaces for searching the data; and explore related genomic resources available worldwide on the Internet. In addition to using GDB and OMIM application software, participants will learn how to retrieve phenotype, mapping, and sequence data with tools such as ftp, e-mail, Gopher, and the WWW hypertext browser NCSA Mosaic. Contact the U.S. GDB User Support Office.
User Support Offices
UNITED STATES GDB User Support; Genome Data Base; Johns Hopkins University; 2024 E. Monument Street; Baltimore, MD 21205-2100 (410/955-9705, Fax: /614-0434, Internet: help@gdb.org)
AUSTRALIA Alex Reisner; ANGIS; Electrical Eng. Bldg. J03; University of Sydney; Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 Australia (+61/2-692-2948, Fax: -3847, Internet: reisner@angis.su.oz.au)
FRANCE Philippe Dessen; Service de Bioinformatique; CNRS-INSERM; 7 rue Guy Moquet - BP8; 94801 Villejuif Cedex France (+33/14559-5241, Fax: -5250, Internet: gdb@genome.vjf.inserm.fr)
GERMANY Otto Ritter; Molecular Biophysics Dept.; German Cancer Research Center; Im Neuenheimer Feld 280; D-6900 Heidelberg Germany (+49/6221-42-2372, Fax: -2333, Internet: dok261@cvx12.dkfz-heidelberg.de)
ISRAEL Jaime Prilusky; Bioinformatics Unit; Weizmann Institute of Science; 76100 Rehovot, Israel (+972/8-343456, Fax: -344113, Internet: lsprilus@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il)
JAPAN Mika Hirakawa; JICST GDB Center; Numajiri Sangyo Building; 783-12, Enokido Tsukuba City, Ibaraki 305, Japan (+81/298-38-2965, Fax: -2956, Internet: mika@gdb.gdbnet.ad.jp)
NETHERLANDS GDB User Support; AOS/CAMM Center; Faculty of Science; University of Nijmegen; P.O. Box 9010; 6500 GL NIJMEGEN Netherlands (+31/80-653391, Fax: -652977, Internet: post@caos.caos.kun.nl)
SWEDEN GDB User Support; Biomedical Center; Box 570; S-751 23 Uppsala; Sweden (+46/18-174057, Fax: -524869, Internet: help@gdb.embnet.se)
UNITED KINGDOM Administration; HGMP Resource Centre; Hinxton, Cambridge; CB10 1RQ United Kingdom (+44/1223-494511, Fax: -494512, Internet: admin@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk)
HGMIS staff
The electronic form of the newsletter may be cited in the following style:
Human Genome Program, U.S. Department of Energy, Human Genome News (v6n5).
The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international 13-year effort, 1990 to 2003. Primary goals were to discover the complete set of human genes and make them accessible for further biological study, and determine the complete sequence of DNA bases in the human genome. See Timeline for more HGP history.
Published from 1989 until 2002, this newsletter facilitated HGP communication, helped prevent duplication of research effort, and informed persons interested in genome research.
