Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains the paper materials of Francis Collins, created and accumulated during his tenure as the Director of the NHGRI (formerly the NCHGR) from 1993 to 2008. Many of the files in this collection predate Dr. Collins tenure, including files from first NHGRI Director James Watson and early planning meetings for what would become the Human Genome Project in the mid to late 1980s. This collection contains materials related to the Human Genome Project, including from before the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains the paper materials of Francis Collins, created and accumulated during his tenure as the Director of the NHGRI (formerly the NCHGR) from 1993 to 2008. Many of the files in this collection predate Dr. Collins tenure, including files from first NHGRI Director James Watson and early planning meetings for what would become the Human Genome Project in the mid to late 1980s. This collection contains materials related to the Human Genome Project, including from before the...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with NHGRI staff regarding a letter sent to both J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins from Science. Because of the media's attention to the competitive "race" between the Human Genome Project and Celera, and the data reaching public news outlets instead of a peer reviewed journal, there was a risk of the collapse of collegiality that could be detrimental to the science community, according to Science. Therefore, the journal hoped to publish the findings of HGP and Celera in one...

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Newspaper articles from Science Magazine, LA Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe and Inquirer, reporting Dr. Craig Venter's success in sequencing the human genome before NIH. In addition to the articles, there is correspondence between Francis Collins and Mark Guyer from NHGRI to collaborate on a way to tell the press that the sequencing phase for the Celera strategy is different and shorter from NHGRI's.

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Newspaper articles reporting on the rivalry between Celera Genomics and NHGRI that was preventing a collaboration between the public and private organizations. The articles report that Celera wrote a letter to NHGRI claiming to be open to collaboration.

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Documents regarding the agreement between the Berkley Drosphila Genome Project and Celera to sequence the Fruit Fly Genome. Documents include signed Memorandum of Understanding with Francis Collins, J. Craig Venter, Marion Lentz, and Gerald Rubin, along with correspondence between Mark Guyer, Francis Collins, and Adam Felsenfeld regarding the construction of the memorandum.

Scope and Contents Documents regarding some of the complications that come with the Celera and NHGRI collaborations. This includes the efforts of Celera and NHGRI to meet their submission goal to Science at the same time on July 15th. Francis also reached out to Craig Venter after genome centers such as St. Louis and Santa Cruz received e-mails from Celera's legal department about hosting their data on Celera's site. The genome centers contacted Francis out of concern, wanting some assurances that the source...

Scope and Contents The final draft of a Memorandum of Understanding between PE Corporation (NY) Through the Celera Genomics Group and National Cancer Institute A Participating Institute of the National Institutes of Health in June 2001. NIH scientists hoped to obtain access to the Celera mouse and human databases. In response, the NCI made arrangements that would enable individual PIs to purchase annual subscriptions. The agreement would allow researchers within the entire NIH system access to Celera's...

Scope and Contents Documents regarding collaborations between genome centers, NHGRI, and Celera regarding a special issue publication in Science magazine. This includes a memo from Eric Lander to Barbara Jasny, Katrina Kelner, Floyd Bloom, and Donald Kennedy regarding Restrictions on Use of Information. Eric Lander was trying to decide whether an author publishing an article in Science magazine may require that readers execute a contractual license agreement before the information reported in the paper. He had...