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 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 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...

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An assembled document of Tracefile Archive Specifications, which was meant to provide reliable storage and retrieval for genomic sequence projects. Also included is a draft of a press release from Celera Genomics upon their completion of sequencing the first human genome, and an e-mail from Adam Felsenfeld to the NHGRI staff regarding preparation for a quality assessment of NHGRI's most recent working draft in May 2000.

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Documents and correspondence regarding final stages of Human Genome Project. Includes Proposed Finishing Standards and Recommendations for the Human Genome Project, Agenda for the Seventh International Strategy Meeting on Human Genome Sequencing, a restatement of HGP Policy for Rapid Data Release of Genomic DNA Sequence, Definitions of quality criteria for working draft, and a copy of the article "The DNA Sequence of Human Chromosome 21" in AP Press.

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...

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Draft minutes from the working group conference call on April 4, 2000 and itinerary for the G5 meeting with the Baylor College of Medicine in April 2000. Also included is slides from the Esembl Project: A software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on eukaryotic genomes. Slides created by the EBI-EMBL and the Sanger Centre discussion by Dr. Ewan Birney.

Scope and Contents Correspondence between Adam Felsenfeld and Francis Collins regarding comparisons between Celera and GenBank's custom databases, along with a draft of the Memorandum of Understanding between The Joint Genome Institute and Celera Genomics as of April 4, 2004. Also included is working draft and agenda for Seventh International Strategy Meeting on Human Genome Sequencing in May 2000, working draft includes Whitehead/Sanger proposal on handling of bacterial insertion sequences in human genomic...