1. A New Five-Year Plan for the U.S. Human Genome Project
2. The status and challenges of the HGP have been recently reviewed [Rowen L. et al. ibid. 278 605 (1997)].
3. The MITRE Corporation JASON Report JSR-97-315 (The MITRE Corporation McLean VA 1997). The participants included S. Block J. Cornwall W. Dally F. Dyson N. Fortson G. Joyce H. J. Kimble N. Lewis C. Max T. Prince R. Schwitters P. Weinberger and W. H. Woodin.
4. For a basic discussion and explanation of the terminogy used see http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/publicat/primer/intro.html.