2012 05 April LaDeana Hillier interview

LaDeana Hillier, telephone interview by Kathryn Maxson and Robert Cook-Deegan, conducted from Durham, NC, 5 April 2012. Hillier was director of informatics at the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center in St. Louis, beginning in 1989 and continuing through the end of the HGP. While there, she held responsibility for transitioning all of the EST sequence information from the Merck Gene Index Project into the public nucleotide databanks. It was in this capacity that she participated in the Bermuda meetings. 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, Washington University Genome Sequencing Center, Merck Gene Index Project, EST sequencing, LaDeana Hillier.