DOE '99 Oakland Highlights
Meeting Intro
HGP Progress, Challenges
Joint Genome Institute
JGI Facility Opening
Sequencing
Device Speeds Sequencing
Chromosome 19 Genes
Functional Genomics
Sample Prep System
Informatics
Education & Bioethics
Microbial Genomes
Next Meeting Feb. 2000

Genome Project
Accelerated Timetable
FY1999 Budgets
JGI Refits Facility
Progress

In the News 
 Drosophila Near Completion
Directors, Researchers Receive Awards
Chromosomes 21, 22 Near Finish
Human MHC Region Sequenced
Mouse Probes Aid Mapping
Genetic Testing Committee
DOE Labs & Biomedicine
Biomedical Engineering Proposals
Drug Firms Create SNP Resource
SBIR 1999 Awards
HUGO News
1999 Hollaender Winners

Microbial Genomics 
EcoCyc Database for E. coli
Developing EcoCyc
Thermotoga Sequence
Clostridium Sequenced
Microbial Gene Finder
Neisseria Sequence
Microbial Web Sites

Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
Education, Counseling Foundation
 ELSI Studies
ELSI Retrospective
Protecting Privacy

Informatics 
MGI 2.2 Released
DNA Repository

Web, Other Resources, Publications 
Metabolic Pathways
New Staden Package
PDB Newsletter
Polymorphism Database
Bacterial Protein Database
DOE BER Publications
HGP Information Web
Biotechnology Business Webs
Behavioral Genetics
Office of Science Reports
Articles on Genetics

Funding 
Genome Research Funding

Meeting Calendars & Acronyms 
Genome & Biotech Meetings 
Training Courses & Workshops 
Acronyms 

HGN archives & subscriptions 
HGP Information home

Resources

DOE BER Program, Symposium Publications

Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium

Serving Science and Society into the New Millennium was a 1997 symposium sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Research Council to celebrate the 50th anniversary of DOE's Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program. Three publications growing out of this meeting are available.

Color booklet profiling 13 scientists recognized with Exceptional Service Awards (39pp., paper and electronic). 1999. [Print copies: HGMIS*; online: www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/berawards]

Color brochure highlighting some major BER achievements (14 pp., paper and electronic). 1999. [Print copies: HGMIS*; online: www.er.doe.gov/production/ober/ber50.html]

Meeting proceedings, including transcripts of plenary talks (156pp., paper). 1998. [National Academy Press: 888/624-6242 or 202/334-3313, Fax: -2451, amerchan@nas.edu, http://www.nap.edu/info/browse.htm (search on "Serving Science and Society")]

Research Program

A Vital Legacy, an attractive 50-year progress report on the revolutionary program that gave rise to the Human Genome Project, is in PDF format on the Web (www.ornl.gov/hgmis/publicat/publications.shtml#vital). Suitable for both lay and scientific audiences. [Print copies: HGMIS.*]

*Human Genome Management Information System (HGMIS)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1060 Commerce Park, MS 6480
Oak Ridge,TN 37830

The electronic form of the newsletter may be cited in the following style:
Human Genome Program, U.S. Department of Energy, Human Genome News (v10n3-4).