Globalizing Genomics: The Origins of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration

Genomics is increasingly considered a global enterprise – the fact that biological information can flow rapidly around the planet is taken to be important to what genomics is and what it can achieve. However, the large-scale international circulation of nucleotide sequence information did not begin...

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Main Author: Stevens, Hallam
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-880592020-03-07T12:10:39Z Globalizing Genomics: The Origins of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration Stevens, Hallam School of Humanities and Social Sciences Genomics Databases Genomics is increasingly considered a global enterprise – the fact that biological information can flow rapidly around the planet is taken to be important to what genomics is and what it can achieve. However, the large-scale international circulation of nucleotide sequence information did not begin with the Human Genome Project. Efforts to formalize and institutionalize the circulation of sequence information emerged concurrently with the development of centralized facilities for collecting that information. That is, the very first databases build for collecting and sharing DNA sequence information were, from their outset, international collaborative enterprises. This paper describes the origins of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration between GenBank in the United States, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Databank, and the DNA Database of Japan. The technical and social groundwork for the international exchange of nucleotide sequences created the conditions of possibility for imagining nucleotide sequences (and subsequently genomes) as a “global” objects. The “transnationalism” of nucleotide sequence was critical to their ontology – what DNA sequences came to be during the Human Genome Project was deeply influenced by international exchange. MOE (Min. of Education, S’pore) Accepted version 2018-03-13T01:44:05Z 2019-12-06T16:55:08Z 2018-03-13T01:44:05Z 2019-12-06T16:55:08Z 2017 Journal Article Stevens, H. (2017). Globalizing Genomics: The Origins of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration. Journal of the History of Biology, in press. 0022-5010 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88059 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44545 10.1007/s10739-017-9490-y en Journal of the History of Biology © 2017 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Journal of the History of Biology, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-017-9490-y]. 47 p. application/pdf
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Databases
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Databases
Stevens, Hallam
Globalizing Genomics: The Origins of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration
description Genomics is increasingly considered a global enterprise – the fact that biological information can flow rapidly around the planet is taken to be important to what genomics is and what it can achieve. However, the large-scale international circulation of nucleotide sequence information did not begin with the Human Genome Project. Efforts to formalize and institutionalize the circulation of sequence information emerged concurrently with the development of centralized facilities for collecting that information. That is, the very first databases build for collecting and sharing DNA sequence information were, from their outset, international collaborative enterprises. This paper describes the origins of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration between GenBank in the United States, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Databank, and the DNA Database of Japan. The technical and social groundwork for the international exchange of nucleotide sequences created the conditions of possibility for imagining nucleotide sequences (and subsequently genomes) as a “global” objects. The “transnationalism” of nucleotide sequence was critical to their ontology – what DNA sequences came to be during the Human Genome Project was deeply influenced by international exchange.
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