SBIR/STTR Research Award
PEDIGREE SOFTWARE FOR THE PRESENTATION OF HUMAN GENOME INFORMATION FOR GENETIC EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
Award amount
$75,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1994Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Molecular Machines Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
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- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
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Research abstract
THE INFORMATION GENERATED BY THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT REQUIRES INNOVATIVE DISPLAYS IF THE INFORMATION IS TO BE WIDELY UTILIZED. THIS PROJECT INVOLVES THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW ALGORITHMS FOR THE EFFICIENT LAYOUT OF PEDIGREE DIAGRAMS TO DISPLAY GENETIC INFORMATION FOR EFFECTIVE VISULAIZATION OF GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS. THESE ALGORITHMS WILL BE INTEGRATED WITH AN INTERACTIVE USER INTERFACE FOR CONSTRUCTING PEDIGREES, SETTING ATTRIBUTES OF INDIVIDUALS IN PEDIGREES, AND PERFORMING GENETIC CALCULATIONS. PHASE I WILL LAY A FOUNDATION FOR INTEGRATION OF PEDIGREE GRAPHICS WITH OTHER DATA SUCH AS ELECTROPHORESIS GEL IMAGE ANALYSIS, CYTOGENTIC DATA, AND CHROMOSOMAL MAPS.
Technology keywords
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