NEWSLETTER OF THE HUGO MUTATION DATABASE INITIATIVE
SPONSORED BY THE MARCH OF DIMES (U.S.A)
No.9 MAY 1999
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
MDI NEWS-
Brisbane Thank You
Vancouver 2000-What is the preferred date?
Mutation Entry form-last chance for comment
Guidelines for content & deployment of databases published
CORRESPONDENCE -
Licensing agreement.
ANNOUNCING NEW DATABASES
New APC database
Wilson disease database
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Mutation Detection Meeting, Vicoforte, Italy, 13th -16th May '99
HUGO MDI Meeting, San Francisco 19 October '99
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MDI NEWS-
*Brisbane '99.
You all will have received a meeting report by now. We would like to thank HUGO and Cathy Pole for their support and generously allowing us the full use of a meeting room.
*Vancouver 2000-what is the preferred date?
The next Human Genome Meeting (HGM) will be held probably April 9-13, 2000. We have been told we cannot host a meeting on April 9th due to the HUGO Council Meeting. Which is the preferred date if we hold a meeting, April 8th or at the end of the meeting? Please send Rania your thoughts if any, on this as soon as possible.
*Mutation Entry form-last chance for comment.
The Draft Allele Variant entry form is still available for comment until May 14th. If you have not already sent your comments to Rania please do so. When all comments are collated, another form will be proposed and placed on the web for comment before a final recommendation is made. We need to get this moving now!
URL: http://ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au:80/~cotton/entry.htm
*Guidelines for content published
Scriver C.R., Nowacki P.M., and Lehvaslaiho H. Guidelines and Recommendations for Content, Structure and Deployment of Mutation Databases. Hum Mut 13:344-350
We have asked the Publishers if they could make this publicly available on the Wiley website, we will announce this if it comes about.
CORRESPONDENCE
Dr David Cox has made available a copy of the License agreement between Stanford University and Users/Licensees of his Radiation Hybrid database (RH database). He agrees that it can be used as a model for protection of Mutation Databases. Existence of specific agreements if drawn up could be noted on the title page of the database. David Cox can be contacted at: cox@camis.stanford.edu
We would appreciate any comments please. Copies of the Licence agreement will be FAXED on request to Rania. Other ideas on this topic are welcome.
ANNOUNCING NEW DATABASES
The following databases have recently been released.
New APC database
http://perso.curie.fr/Thierry.Soussi/
Curator: Thierry Soussi, INSERM, Hopital Necker Enfants Malades, Paris, France
Wilson disease database
http://www.medgen.med.ualberta.ca
Curators: Susan Kenney and Diane Cox, Dept. of Med. Genetics, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
HUGO Mutation Detection '99
DATE: 13th -16th May, 1999
VENUE: Vicoforte, Italy.
LOCAL ORGANISERS: -Irma Dianzani, Alberto Ponzone, Clara Camaschella & Alberto Piazza
ENQUIRIES TO: R.G.H. Cotton
Email: cotton@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
HUGO Mutation Database Initiative
7th International Meeting
San Francisco, U.S.A 1999
This meeting will be held the day before the San Francisco meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics-
TIME: 8.00am-7.00pm
DATE: 19th October 1998
VENUE: The Argent Hotel, San Francisco, U.S.A
REGISTRATION
FEE : Will be determined in the next week.
Lunch is included.
ORGANISERS: R. Horaitis, R.G.H. Cotton (Australia)
REGISTRATION: Contact R. Horaitis
Email: horaitis@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
Fax: 61-3-9288-2988
WEBSITE: http://ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au:80/~cotton/mdi.htm
This meeting will be held in conjunction with the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). It is usually held the day before ASHG begins (i.e. the registration/mixer day), a fee is charged to cover costs. Please mark this in your calendar. More details will be sent as they become available. If you wish to present a poster, which may then be chosen as an oral presentation, please inform Rania as soon as possible. Ideas for the meeting are welcome.
