2012 26 July Masahira Hattori interview

Masahira Hattori, e-mail interview by Kathryn Maxson, 26 July 2012. At the time of the first Bermuda meeting, Masahira Hattori was a team leader of the four-team Japanese Human Genome Sequencing Project funded by the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) of the Science and Technology Agency. When the project was relocated to the RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center in 1998 under the leadership of Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Hattori remained a team leader from 1999-2002. This transcript is available beginning 1 July 2014. It contains follow-up questions, also completed by e-mail. 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, Japanese Human Genome Sequencing Project, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Science and Technology Agency (STA), RIKEN Genomic Science Center, Masahira Hattori.