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... However, as pointed out by Donal Manahan, director of the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems at the National Science Foundation (NSF) , even after decades of intense work, researchers still do not understand the functions of all of the genes in any organism and exactly how the information in genes is transformed into an organism's phenotype, its physical characteristics.
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... "And here we are 20 years later hopefully narrowing that down in many ways." NSF funded the workshop, Manahan said, because it is interested in obtaining guidance from the scientific community concerning how to move the field of functional genomics forward. The information NSF sought from functional genomics researchers "will help us develop new approaches as a community, to address how best to develop a predictive understanding of properties of living systems." Gene Robinson of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who chaired the workshop's organizing committee, then offered some additional background concerning the workshop.
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... The views contained in the proceedings are those of individual workshop participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all workshop participants, the planning committee, or the National Academies. The organization of this proceedings roughly follows the organization of the workshop itself.
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... Chapter 6 recounts the workshop's second keynote presentation, this one by Patricia Wittkopp of the University of Michigan. Chapter 7 covers a session that was devoted to interpreting and validating results from highthroughput screening approaches, while Chapter 8 describes presentations and a panel discussion focused on large databases and consortia.
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