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The Jason Group
Elite weapons application scientists, developing cutting-edge science weapons for DARPA, and operating under the cover of the Mitre Corporation.
What they are doing is developing genetics for war and operating in relative secrecy.
They don't deserve to exist. The money which is spent on this project could be put to use in a much more productive manner.
Human Genome Project
October 7, 1997
The MITRE Corporation
JASON Program Office
1820 Dolley Madison Blvd
McLean, Virginia 22102
(703) 883-6997
Study Leader:
S. Koonin
Contributors Include:
S. Block
J. Cornwall
W. Dally
F. Dyson
N. Fortson
G. Joyce
H. J. Kimble
N. Lewis
C. Max
T. Prince
R. Schwitters
P. Weinberger
W. H. Woodin
JSR-97-315
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BACKGROUND, CHARGE, AND RECOMMENDATIONS
1.1 Overview of the Human Genome Project
1.2 Challenges for the Project
1.2.1 The complexity of genomic data
1.2.2 The state of technology
1.2.3 The pace of sequencing
1.2.4 The cost of sequencing
1.2.5 Project coordination
1.3 Study charge
1.4 Recommendations
1.4.1 General recommendations
1.4.2 Technology recommendations
1.4.3 Quality recommendations
1.4.4 Informatics recommendations
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TECHNOLOGY
2.1 Improvements of present genomics technology
2.1.1 Electrophoresis improvements and an ABI users group
2.1.2 Algorithms
2.2 DOE's mission for advanced sequencing technology
2.2.1 Institutional barriers to advanced technology development
2.2.2 Purposes of advanced sequencing technology
2.3 Specific advanced technologies
2.3.1 Single-molecule sequencing
2.3.2 Mass-spectrometric sequencing
2.3.3 Hybridization arrays
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QUALITY
3.1 Quality requirements
3.1.1 The diversity of quality requirements
3.1.2 Accuracy required for assembly
3.2 Verification protocols
3.2.1 Restriction enzyme verification of sequence accuracy
3.2.2 Hybridization arrays for sequence verification
3.2.3 Implementation of verification protocols
3.3 Assessing and improving present techniques
3.3.1 A systems approach is required
3.3.2 Gold standards for measuring sequence accuracy
3.3.3 Quality issues pertaining to sequencing templates
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GENOME INFORMATICS
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Databases
4.2.1 User issues
4.2.2 Modularity and standards
4.2.3 Scaling and storage
4.2.4 Archiving raw data
4.2.5 Measures of success
4.3 Sociological issues
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JASON (advisory group)
JASON is an independent group of scientists which advises the United States government on matters of science and technology. The group was first created as a way to get a younger generation of scientists—that is, not the older Los Alamos and MIT Radiation Laboratory alumni—involved in advising the government. It was established in 1960 and has somewhere between 30 and 60 members.
Activities
For administrative purposes, JASON's activities are run through the MITRE Corporation, a non-profit corporation in McLean, Virginia, which contracts with the Defense Department.
JASON typically performs most of its work during an annual summer study. Its sponsors include the Department of Defense (frequently DARPA and the United States Navy), the Department of Energy, and the U.S. Intelligence Community. Most of the resulting JASON reports are classified.
The name "JASON" is sometimes explained as an acronym, standing either for "July August September October November", the months in which the group would typically meet; or, tongue in cheek, for "Junior Achiever, Somewhat Older Now". However, neither explanation is correct; in fact, the name is not an acronym at all. It is a reference to Jason, a character from Greek mythology. The wife of one of the founders (Mildred Goldberger) thought the name given by the defense department, Project Sunrise, was unimaginative and suggested the group be named for a hero and his search.
JASON studies have included a now-mothballed system for communicating with submarines using extremely long radio waves (Project Seafarer, Project Sanguine), an astronomical technique for overcoming the atmosphere's distortion (adaptive optics), the many problems of missile defense, technologies for verifying compliance with treaties banning nuclear tests, a 1982 report predicting CO2-driven global warming, and a system of computer-linked sensors developed during the Vietnam War which became the precursor to the modern electronic battlefield.
Membership
JASON members all have security clearances, and they include physicists, biologists, chemists, oceanographers, mathematicians, and computer scientists.[1] They are selected for their scientific brilliance, and, over the years, have included eleven Nobel Prize laureates and several dozen members of the United States National Academy of Sciences.[2]
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