International Strategy Meetings

Comprises papers relating to the first six International Strategy Meetings along with papers from the eighth and tenth meetings.

November 1995-September 2001

8 files

The first International Strategy Meeting was held in Bermuda in 1996, as Bermuda was thought to be a suitably neutral location. The meeting was open to those who were interested in and had funding for genome sequencing and aimed to gain agreement on who would work on which sequencing regions. The meeting resulted in the formation of the Bermuda Principles which stated that all sequence data would be released into the public domain and made freely available. The data would also be released as it was finished, rather than when the entire sequence was complete. Subsequent meetings refined ideas on both data release and sequencing claims and etiquette, and led to agreed data quality standards.