NHGRI Planning White Papers Now Available for Comment

January 30, 2009

NHGRI Planning White Papers Now Available for Comment: Deadline Extended to February 27!

As part of our planning process, the National Human Genome Research Institute’s (NHGRI) has added a white paper on the “Future of Genome Sequencing” to the collection of white papers available for viewing and comment athttp://www.genome.gov/About/Planning.  To stimulate discussion, comments received will be posted anonymously for others to view and react to.  

We invite your review and comment in two phases.  Phase 1, open now, will collect community thoughts solely on the questions posed in the white papers, aimed at ensuring we are asking the right questions.  Since we have just added this white paper, we are extending the deadline for Phase 1 comment on any of the white papers to February 27, 2009. 

Once the questions are refined based upon the comment received, Phase 2 will collect community input regarding how best to answer the questions, probably starting in mid-March 2009 and continuing through mid-May 2009.  Other white papers on other topics may be added as the process continues.

Comments received through this white-paper process will be used to generate topics for further planning activities and workshops, which will be held in 2009 and 2010.