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Human Genome Quarterly, Winter 1990; 1(3)
Integration of Databases Proposed
BIO-MATRIX '89, the third Bio-Matrix symposium, began with the last session of the MacroMolecules, Genes and Computers Workshop and continued to August 20 at Waterville Valley, New Hampshire. BIO-MATRIX '89 convened to explore the implementation of the Bio-Matrix concept and to foster the necessary interchange among the various computer science and biological disciplines. Bio-Matrix proponents see a pressing need to integrate all biological databases into a cohesive whole that would be interfaced to a knowledge base containing a structured representation of biological information. Seventeen speakers presented talks on topics related to the achievement of these goals to the 65 biologists and computer scientists attending the meeting.
As an outgrowth of this meeting, George Mason University, with the support of the National Science Foundation and NIH, will sponsor the International Meeting: Bioinformatics, Integration of Organismic and Molecular Data Bases and Use of Expert Systems in Biology on July 9-11 in Fairfax, Virginia.
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Human Genome Program, U.S. Department of Energy, Human Genome News (v1n3).
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.
