The following is a forward of Francis Collins' message to the NIH staff,
expressing his desire to make this information available to the scientific
community. Happy Genoming.
Jack Simpson
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francis Collins [SMTP:francis_collins@nih.gov]
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 4:13 PM
> To: NIH-STAFF@LIST.NIH.GOV
> Subject: Availability of human genome sequence
>
> Dear Colleagues,
> A few weeks ago, the international human genome sequencing
> consortium described (in a letter published in the Sept. 1 issue of
> Science and in a news brief published in the Aug. 31 issue of Nature) a
> number of electronic sites where the public working draft version of the
> human sequence can be found in its most useable forms. However, it is
> clear from a number of recent interactions with investigators, that many
> are still not aware of the accessibility of this important information. I
> am writing to make sure that you are aware that the working draft sequence
> is available and to ask your assistance in helping to make the entire
> scientific community aware of this valuable resource, by distributing the
> attached information describing three sites that display the entire
> working draft sequence and provide tools for its use.
>
> The following links will take investigators directly to three
> different (but complementary) assembled views of the human genome,
> together with useful browsing tools that provide a wide variety of
> annotations of the sequence. These sites are updated very frequently,
> indeed almost continually.
>
> U. Calif. at Santa Cruz
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/
> National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/ and click "Map
> Viewer"
> European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
> http://www.ensembl.org/
>
> The NHGRI is sending this information to all NIH staff, both extramural
> and intramural, as well as to all of our grantees. I hope that you will
> help us reach the larger scientific community with this important
> information by distributing this message to your staff and colleagues,
> your grantees and others with whom your Institute routinely communicates.
> Thanks
> Francis Collins
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