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Plenary Session 1: Genomes and Function.

Chair: Kenneth A. Walsh (University of Washington, Seattle, WA)

Richard K. Wilson (Washington University, St. Louis, MO) C. elegans Genome Project.

Michael Y. Galperin (National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD)

Hits and Misses in Functional Genomics: First Lessons from a Comparison of Bacterial and Archaeal

Protein Sequences.

Plenary Session 2: Chromatin Structure and Gene Regulation.

Chair: David Landsman (National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD)

C. David Allis (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia) Linking Histone Modifications to Gene Activation.

Alan P. Wolffe (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland)

Linking Histone Modifications to Gene Repression.

ABRF Award Presentation: Marvin H. Caruthers (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)

Plenary Session 3: New and Emerging Techniques in Structural Biology.

Chair: Paul Matsudaira (MIT, Boston, MA)

David C. Schwartz (New York University, New York, NY)

Optical Mapping: A New Approach for Whole Genome Analysis.

Joachim Frank (Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY)

Ribosome Structure and Function, as Explored by Three-Dimensional Cryo-Electron Microscopy.

Twelve scientific sessions have been scheduled. Chairs/speakers include: Andy Baxevanis, Warren Gish, Tara Matise, Francis Ouellette, John Quackenbush, John Stults, Kenneth A. Walsh, Karl Clauser, Gregg Fields.

Nine tutorial sessions have been scheduled. Chairs/speakers include: Chuck Staben, Clayton Naeve, Ken Mitchelhill, George Grills, Roland Annan, Duane Bartley.

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