GenBank Anniversary Conference
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the GenBank DNA sequence database, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (a division of the National Library of Medicine at NIH) brought together a number of distinguished scientists in molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics and other areas to discuss GenBank's history, the discoveries it has enabled, and future directions. The conference, held April 7-8, 2008 on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, is archived on this website, where you can view all of the presentations as well as separate interviews. The presentations are searchable by text and by slides.
Opening Remarks
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Michael Gottesman Deputy Director for Intramural Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD |
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Donald A.B. Lindberg Director, National Library of Medicine (NLM), NIH, Bethesda, MD |
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Session Chair, Francis Ouellette Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada |
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Rich Roberts Chief Scientific Officer, New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA The Importance of Open Access to Data and Literature |
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Bruno J. Strasser Assistant Professor of History of Science and Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT Property, Privacy and Priority: A History of GenBank (1965-1982) |
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Graham Cameron Associate Director, European Bioinfomatics Institute (EBI), Hinxton, United Kingdom EMBL, GenBank, DDBJ - The Early Days |
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Takashi Gojobori Vice-Director and Professor, Center for International Biology & DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ); National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan DDBJ, GenBank and EMBL, and Sequencing Revolution |
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Christian Burks President and CEO, Ontario Genomics Institute, Toronto, Canada Genbank's Early Days |
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Christian Burks, Graham Cameron, Takashi Gojobori Panel Discussion |
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Session Chair, David Landsman National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD |
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Charles DeLisi Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA |
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James Ostell Chief, Information Engineering Branch, NCBI, NLM, NIH Bethesda, MD GenBank at NCBI |
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David Botstein Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Genomics, Computation and the Nature of Biological Understanding |
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J. Craig Venter President, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD Genomics: From Human to the Environment |
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Session Chair, Steven Salzberg Horvitz Professor of Computer Science Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
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Sydney Brenner Salk Institute, San Diego, CA |
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David Relman Associate Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Why You Are Never Alone at Night: Human-Microbial Symbiosis |
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Elizabeth Nabel Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH, Bethesda, MD |
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Francis Collins Director, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), NIH, Bethesda, MD Genomics, Medicine and Society |
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Session Chair, Kent Smith NCBI, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD |
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Sharon Terry President and CEO, Genetic Alliance, Washington, DC Genetic Alliance BioBank: Enabling Biomedical Research |
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David Lipman Director, NCBI, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD Genbank's Greatest Hits: A Sampling of Discoveries |
