LABVELOCITY POSTS EXCLUSIVE HUMAN GENOME PROGRAM ANALYSIS BY TREVOR HAWKINS
Site Expands Services to Include Bioinformatics Links
SAN FRANCISCO--(COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Oct. 25, 2000--LabVelocity, Inc. (www.labvelocity.com), an online resource for life scientists that accelerates the process of scientific research, announced today it has published an exclusive analysis of the Human Genome Program by renowned scientist Trevor L. Hawkins, Ph.D., the deputy director of the Joint Genome Institute (Department of Energy) and director of the genome division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. With this article, LabVelocity is initiating an analysis of scientific trends that will be published monthly. To further enhance genomic research, LabVelocity also announced it has evaluated and published links to web sites that provide helpful bioinformatics tools and information.
Hawkins’ paper, “The Human Genome: The Pursuit and The Promise,” begins with a historical analysis of the Human Genome Program, which includes a genome status report and a discussion of the public and private initiatives and organizations involved in the project. Other topics include:
* Emerging genomic technologies and their resulting societal and medical benefits * Recommendations for future directions for the genome program * The development of new genomic technologies * The discovery of genes and their regulatory regions * What novel genomes say about our genetic similarity to other species * How new genes can predict protein functions and diseases * The future of personalized medicine and gene therapy
“We are extremely honored to be the exclusive host of Dr. Hawkins’ article,” said Gary H. Stroy, Chief Executive Officer, LabVelocity. “Decoding the human genome has launched a new era of genetic medicine, and we are very excited to bring Dr. Hawkins’ analysis of this development to the scientific community and general public.”
To read Dr. Hawkins’ paper, log on to LabVelocity’s homepage at
www.labvelocity.com
Offering free, Internet-based resources for the life sciences industry, LabVelocity partners with leading life science product and service suppliers to provide scientists with a comprehensive and proprietary set of applications including parametric product search tools, comparison tables, experimental protocols, reference materials, detailed maps of DNA vectors, conversion calculators and other software tools, all of which are integrated to create a highly efficient network of information. In beta testing, it was shown that scientists using LabVelocity could find products and information needed to execute experiments significantly faster than using other available methods.
About LabVelocity
San Francisco, CA-based LabVelocity Inc., a privately held company, was founded in June, 1999, by Dave Balducci and Erik Lium, Ph.D., two scientists from the University of California, San Francisco. Balducci and Lium agreed that locating and ordering scientific supplies was both time-consuming and frustrating, and both recognized the need to aggregate scientific literature, tools and products into a comprehensive website resource. LabVelocity combines the experience of a team of life scientists from both industry and academia, as well as a premier executive team, board of directors and advisors that represent the most esteemed scientific organizations and institutions. Early-round investors include Acacia Venture Partners and Venrock Associates. For more information visit the site at
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