Drosophila Genome MOU, UC Berkeley, 1998 - 1999

File — Box: FC-40, Folder: 5

Identifier: 2

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Scope and Contents

Documents regarding the Memorandum of Understanding between Celera Genomics and Regents of the University of California, Berkeley on behalf of the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project Group Concerning Research on Determining the Sequence and Annotation of the Reference Drosophila Genome. The outcome would be two jointly published papers for Science; one to describe the consensus DNA sequence of Drosophila and the other for a comparative analysis of the Drosophila and other genomes. Celera intended to use Drosophila as a test system of the whole genome shotgun approach. Gerald Rubin of Berkeley hoped to work with Celera to produce a high quality, publicly available sequence of the Drosophila genome that was annotated with features of biological interest. Celera would do the shotgun sequencing while the Berkeley would work on the mapping and any additional sequencing. Documents include a letter from Gerald Rubin to GRRC about the collaboration, and correspondence with Adam Felsenfeld, Jane Peterson, Mark Guyer, Francis Collins, and Elke Jordan to update their data release policy and to address their concerns about whether Celera's unwillingness to release their data before they finish their full drosophila sequence. Adam drafted some award terms on data release along with comments to bring Dr. Rubin in line with the human grantees.

Dates

Creation: 1998 - 1999

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