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NHGRI Planning Process Topics for Further Exploration
The white papers presented in another portion of the Web site address important areas being considered by the Institute in the planning process, but they do not represent all of our areas of interest. Below is a list of topic areas that also have been identified for further exploration as part of the NHGRI planning process.
- Large-scale DNA sequencing and its applications, such as medical sequencing, comparative sequencing, and metagenomic sequencing
- Sequence-based functional genomics, currently being addressed by projects such as ENCODE, modENCODE, and MGC, but also including the disease-specific transcriptome profiles of disease, siRNAs, microRNAs, the language of gene regulation, and cell states
- Population genomics
- Informatics and computational biology relevant to genomics, including new bioinformatic tools, databases/browsers, visualization tools and beyond
- Epigenomics
- Proteomics
- Chemical genomics
- Genomics of good health
- Ethical, legal, and social implications, including new social network models for direct-to-consumer information distribution, public education, and implications for clinical research
- Application of genomics to clinical problems, including rare diseases, global health, diagnostics, prevention, and therapeutics
- Large-scale population cohort studies
For more information about the NHGRI planning process, please contact:
Alice Bailey
Scientific Program Analyst
National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
Phone: 301-496-0844
Fax: 301-402-0837
E-mail: baileyali@mail.nih.gov
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