Mapping our genes: The genome projects: How big, how fast Metadata

Title

• Main Title Mapping our genes: The genome projects: How big, how fast

Publisher

• Name: Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress), Washington, DC
  Place of Publication: United States

Date

• Creation: 1988-04-01

Language

• English

Description

• Content Description: For the past 2 years, scientific and technical journals in biology and medicine have extensively covered a debate about whether and how to determine the function and order of human genes on human chromosomes and when to determine the sequence of molecular building blocks that comprise DNA in those chromosomes. In 1987, these issues rose to become part of the public agenda. The debate involves science, technology, and politics. Congress is responsible for /open quotes/writing the rules/close quotes/ of what various federal agencies do and for funding their work. This report surveys the points made so far in the debate, focusing on those that most directly influence the policy options facing the US Congress. Congressional interest focused on how to assess the rationales for conducting human genome projects, how to fund human genome projects (at what level and through which mechanisms), how to coordinate the scientific and technical programs of the several federal agencies and private interests already supporting various genome projects, and how to strike a balance regarding the impact of genome projects on international scientific cooperation and international economic competition in biotechnology. OTA prepared this report with the assistance of several hundred experts throughout the world. 342 refs., 26 figs., 11 tabs.
• Physical Description: Pages: 218

Subject

• Keyword: Research Programs
• Keyword: Europe
• Keyword: Mapping
• Keyword: Animals
• Keyword: Information Systems
• Keyword: Program Management
• Keyword: International Cooperation
• Keyword: Ethical Aspects
• Keyword: Document Types
• Keyword: United Kingdom
• Keyword: Dna Sequencing
• STI Subject Categories: 29 Energy Planning, Policy And Economy
• Keyword: Man
• Keyword: Us National Academy Of Science
• Keyword: International Organizations
• Keyword: Primates
• Keyword: Us Doe
• Keyword: Mammals
• STI Subject Categories: 140504 -- Solar Energy Conversion-- Biomass Production & Conversion-- (-1989)
• Keyword: Us Hew
• Keyword: Genetic Mapping
• STI Subject Categories: 550200 -- Biochemistry
• Keyword: National Program Plans
• STI Subject Categories: 299003 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Unconventional Sources & Power Generation-- Other-- (-1989)
• Keyword: Reviews
• Keyword: Western Europe 550400* -- Genetics
• Keyword: Organizational Models
• Keyword: National Organizations
• STI Subject Categories: 59 Basic Biological Sciences
• Keyword: Experiment Planning
• Keyword: Vertebrates
• Keyword: Coordinated Research Programs
• Keyword: Planning
• Keyword: Us Organizations
• Keyword: Japan
• Keyword: Technology Transfer
• STI Subject Categories: 299000 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Unconventional Sources & Power Generation
• Keyword: European Communities
• Keyword: Management
• Keyword: Federal Republic Of Germany
• Keyword: Italy
• Keyword: Structural Chemical Analysis
• Keyword: France
• Keyword: Asia
• Keyword: Cooperation
• Keyword: Advisory Committees
• STI Subject Categories: 09 Biomass Fuels

Collection

• Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
  Code: OSTI

Institution

• Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
  Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

• Report

Format

• Text

Identifier

• Other: TI88009778
• Report No.: OTA-BA-373
• DOI: 10.2172/5113312
• Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 5113312
• Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc1061054

Note

• Display Note: Ofice of Technology Assessment, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20510; 1.