GENETICS

Associations

• American Society of Human Genetics
  The ASHG is the primary professional membership organization for human genetics specialists including researchers, academicians, clinicians, laboratory practice professionals, and genetic counselors. The website includes information on education and jobs as well as learning resources for teachers.
• American Board of Genetic Counseling
• American Board of Medical Genetics
• American College of Medical Genetics
• Association of Genetic Technologists
• The Genetics Society
  Features information about meetings and conferences covering all aspects of genetics. Also contains a newsletter.
• Genetics Society of America
  the Genetics Society of America offers membership to scientists and academicians interested in the field of genetics studies. The Society publishes the journal "Genetics".
• National Society of Genetic Counselors

Research Projects and Institutions

• The Human Genome Project 
  This website documents the international effort to analyze, study, and map the genetic code of the human genome. This website features archives of the important articles, abstracts and reports concerning the development of the Humane Genome Project as well as well as guides and information on using the HGP databases to study genetic disorders, proteins, chromosomes, etc. Also included are learning  resources for teachers and students include webcasts, image libraries, audio and video casts.
• National Human Genome Research Institute
  Since completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has supported the application of genome research to the understanding of genetic disorders and health, and to promote the study of the ethical, legal and social implications of genetics research.  NHGRI also supports the training of health care professionals in genetics and acts as a clearing house for genetics information to the public. 
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a private, not-for-profit research and education institution for the advancement of molecular biology and genetics.    
  • Bioinformatics and Genomics   
  • Dolan DNA Learning Center        
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory.                                                                                                    

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the DOE's largest science and energy labortatory, was established in 1943 to support the Manhattan Project. Now ORNL supports research in clean energy, nuclear technology and security, material science and engineering, and computational science and engineering.

  • Computational Biology at ORNL    

    This division conducts research in genomic sequencing, computational genome analysis, and computational protein structure analysis.

Other Genome Projects

• University of Wisconsin-Madison;s E Coli Genome Project
• University of Indiana, Bloomington;s Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics
• Flybase; a Drosphilia genomic database
• Interactive Fly
• Nature's Mouse Genome
• Jackson Laboratory's Mouse Genome Informatics Project

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