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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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