2011 02 July Michael Ashburner interview

Michael Ashburner, interview by Kathryn Maxson and Robert Cook-Deegan, Cambridge, UK, 2 July 2011. Michael Ashburner played a pivotal role in the mapping and sequencing of the Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit fly, genome. He is also the former joint-head of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge, England. This transcript is available beginning 1 July 2014. Keywords: Human Genome Project, HGP, interview, Bermuda Principles, Bermuda Accord, International Strategy Meetings on Human Genome Sequencing, data sharing, science policy, genomics, genome, genome sequence, genetics, DNA sequence, DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, NIH, National Institutes of Health, DOE, Department of Energy, Drosophila, fruit fly, University of Cambridge, European Bioinformatics Institute, EBI, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL, Michael Ashburner.