History
In 1989 the Howard Hughes Medical Institute provided funding to establish a central repository for human genetic mapping data. This project ultimately resulted in the creation of the GDB Human Genome DataBase in 1990. It was a key database in the Human Genome Project.
Established under the leadership of Dr.'s Peter Pearson and Dick Lucier, GDB received significant financial support from the US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. Located at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, GDB became a source of high quality mapping data which were made available both on-line as well as through numerous printed publications.
In 1998, the change of focus in the human genome project redirected funds which were previously available for GDB. However that same year, Dr. A. Jamie Cuticchia obtained funding from Canadian public and private sources to continue the operations of GDB. While the data curation continued to be performed at Johns Hopkins, GDB central operations were moved to The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In 2003 RTI International became the new host for GDB where it continued to be maintained as a public resource for high quality genetic and genomic information.
On June 1, 2008 RTI International shut down GDB operations.
Read more about this topic: GDB Human Genome Database
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