§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what computer science research is being supported by public funds to improve United Kingdom capability to process the data generated by the human genome project.
§ Mr. Robert JacksonThe Government made available to the Medical Research Council an extra £11 million over three years to enable it to play a major role in the United Kingdom Human Genome Mapping Project—HGMP. The MRC has provided support for the installation of computing facilities at the HGMP resource centre, Northwick park, Harrow and, among others, to its National Institute for Medical Research and Laboratory of Molecular Biology for the development of software to process and store genome mapping data. The MRC has also agreed to contribute to the support of the human genome database—GDB—in the John Hopkins university, Baltimore, USA, and has contributed to the establishment of a GDB node at the Resource Centre, the first outside the USA.
There is no central information on other relevant work which the universities, medical schools or medical research charities may be supporting.