Creation and maintenance of Helix, a Web based database of medical genetics laboratories, to serve the needs of the genetics community.

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Creation and maintenance of Helix, a Web based database of medical genetics laboratories, to serve the needs of the genetics community.

Proceedings. AMIA Symposium - 1 Jan 1998

Tarczy-Hornoch P, Covington M L, Edwards J, Shannon P, Fuller S, Pagon R A

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Helix (healthlinks.washington.edu/helix) is a web accessible database that serves as the main U.S. directory of laboratories offering genetic testing. The database was designed to address the previously unmet need for a centralized, continuously updated source of information about clinical and re...

Topics

Database Management Systems
Databases, Factual
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Genetic Testing
Genotype
Humans
Internet
Laboratories
Phenotype
Programming Languages

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