Bioinformatics Vol. 18 no. 90002 2002
Pages S152
© 2002 Oxford University Press
Estonian Genome Projectbefore the take-off and take-off
1 University of Tartu/ Estonian Biocentre and EGI. Inc, Tartu, Estonia
Received on April 8, 2002
; accepted on June 15, 2002
I will give an overview of the preparations of the EGP including all aspects of the project and current satus of the pilot phase, describe the informatics part of the project together with other aspects (legal, ethical, logistics, financial etc.) and where we stand in terms of population genetics and genotyping technology in order to start using the sample collection for casecontrol studies for revealing the genetic component of the common diseases.