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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060 EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 92, Num. 6, 1997, pp. 803
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Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Vol. 92(6), November/December
1997, pp. 803
PARASITE GENOME PROJECTS: STRATEGIES AND METHODS
13-24 November 1995 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Code Number:OC97150
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Foreword
Ever since the start of the Human Genome Project, officially in 1990,
great hopes and fears have been expressed simultaneously by the scientific
community and society. After dissipation of doubts about the technical and
financial feasibility of the project, discussions have been centered mainly
on ethical questions and economical issues, such as patents. However, it is
now consensus that great benefits for mankind are within reach, and that
our understanding about (molecular) biology of living organisms will reach
a completely new dimension. Besides that, technical innovations, under
development in order to reach more mapping, sequencing and analysis speed
will undoubtedly transform profoundly the way science is done in this
field.
In parallel, a great number of genome projects on other quot;modelquot;
organism have been initiated, some of them already completed. Several
initiatives have also been started on parasite genomes, mainly through
support from WHO/TDR, involving North-South and South-South collaborations,
and great hopes are vested in that these initiatives will lead to new tools
for disease control and prevention, as well as to the establishment of
genomic research technology in developing countries. The Trypanosoma
cruzi genome project has made considerable progress through the
concerted action of more than 20 laboratories, most of them in the South.
In this volume, several papers were brought together, as a result of the
International Training Course on quot;Parasite Genome Projects: Strategies
and Methodsquot;, and the Symposium on Genome Projects, held at INGEBI,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 13-24 1995.
The Organizers
Copyright 1997 Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz
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