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7th International HUGO Mutation Database Meeting, October 19, 1999, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Author(s) -
Horaitis Ourania,
Cotton Richard G.H.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
human mutation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.981
H-Index - 162
eISSN - 1098-1004
pISSN - 1059-7794
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1098-1004(200003)15:3<288::aid-humu10>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - database , library science , biology , variation (astronomy) , computer science , astrophysics , physics
The 7th International HUGO Mutation Database Meeting was held on October 19, 1999 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Meeting highlights are described, including discussions of topics such as the ethical aspects of variation databases, ethical guidelines which should be established immediately, data protection laws which may affect access to data, and plans to make variation databases financially self‐sustaining. A resolution was passed which encourages HUGO and Mutation Database Initiative (MDI) collaboration (under the name HUGO‐MDI) to provide an integrated, properly funded system of variation databases. Hum Mutat 15:288–292, 2000. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.