The aim of the Conference and its proceedings is to provide a forum in which experts from both the academic and the industrial sectors as well as other interested individuals (young researchers and students) can gain a first hand knowledge of the scope, direction and future prospects in the international initiation of human genome research and its supporting technologies of electrophoresis and computing.
Contents:
- The Human Genome Project in the USSR (A A Bayev)
- The Human Genome Project: Opportunities and Obstacles (C R Cantor)
- The Interaction of High-Resolution Electrophoresis and Computational Analysis in Genome Mapping (A V Carrano et al.)
- Abstract Graphic Images of Long DNA Sequences Suitable for Communications Over Computer Networks (E Hamori)
- Informational-Computer Support of the Soviet National Human Genome Project and Problem of Intellectualization (N A Kolchanov)
- Electrophoretic Orientation of DNA (B Nordën et al.)
- Differential Cloning of Mammalian Genomic DNA by In-Gel Competitive Reassociation (H Yokota & M Oishi)
- Overcoming the Limitations of Gel Electrophoresis: Fractionation of 0.05–0.29 Mb Open Circular DNA (P Serwer et al.)
- Molecular Strategies for Physical Mapping and Fine Structure Analysis of Flow-Sorted Human Chromosomes 21 (N Shimizu et al.)
- Orientation of the Agarose Matrix in Electric Fields (N C Stellwagen)
- Some Computational Challenges in the Human Genome Program (G I Bell)
- Computational Methods for Physical Mapping of Chromosomes (D C Torney et al.)
- and other papers
Readership: Biologists, chemists, statistical physicists and computer scientists.