Interagency Coordination 



Management of the 

 Human Genome 

 Program 



Joint DOE/NIH Activities 



A 1988 Memorandum of Understanding specifies procedures for coordinating DOE and 

 NIH efforts and establishes a joint advisory committee and an interagency working 

 group. NIH observers attend the quarterly meetings of the DOE Human Genome 

 Coordinating Committee, and DOE observers attend meetings of the Program Advisory 

 Committee (PAC) to the NIH National Center for Human Genome Research. In August 

 and October, DOE and NIH representatives met infomially as a joint planning group to 

 begin fomiulation of a coordinated multiyear research plan, which was presented in 

 December to the HERAC and PAC subcommittees, who then completed the plan. This 

 national plan was presented to the U.S. Congress in early 1990. 



Several important workshops have been cosponsored by DOE and NIH; they include: 



• Workshop on Repositories, Data Management, and Quality Assurance for the 

 National Gene Library and Genome Ordering Projects (August 1987). 



• Workshop on Data Management for Physical Mapping (cosponsored with the 

 Howard Hughes Medical Institute) (May 1988), 



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Informatics 



Human Genome Management Information System 

 (HGMIS) staff. HGMIS staff are located at the Oak 

 Ridge National Laboratory in the Biomedical and 

 Environmental Information Analysis Section of the 

 Health and Safety Research Division. Members of the 

 Graphics Division and the Publications Division assist 

 with manuscript design and preparation. HGMIS 

 welcomes contributions and suggestions from 

 genome researchers. (Photographs provided by 

 HGMIS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.) 



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