The meeting was attended by over 1,700 individuals and featured invited papers on technology, advances in our understanding of different genomes and a large number of animal, plant, microbe and technology workshops.
Plans are already underway for the PAG X meeting.
Plans for speakers are now being made. If you have suggestions, please pass them along to the organizers. Nearly 100 attendees were present for the speaker portion of the workshop. During the remainder of the workshop, station reports were presented by the NRSP-8 Swine Genome Committee members. Significant progress was reported in the areas of comparative mapping, EST development and QTL identification.