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At present, the analysis of microbial, plant and animal genomes provides us with a plethora of exciting information about the molecular mechanisms which are active in living organisms, and within a few years the human genome will be fully sequenced, leading to the discovery of proteins and protein cascades involved in all functions of our body, healthy or diseased. A completely new concept of diagnosis and therapy will eventually arise from these findings. As these developments imply the storage, retrieval and sequence comparison of huge amounts of DNA - DNA sequences deposited in internationally accessible databanks have just exceeded 109 base pairs - the methods of bioinformatics have become extremely important to cope with the breathtaking developments of molecular biology.

This first German-Vietnamese Workshop on Genetic Engineering and Bioinformatics will address these questions and provide a setting for young Vietnamese scientists to train themselves in some of the key methods involved. The organizers hope that this workshop will help to stimulate Vietnamese research and technology in this exciting field of molecular biology, and to initiate future cooperations among Vietnamese and German scientists.

Prof. Rolf D. Schmid, Institute of Technical Biochemistry, Stuttgart

Supported by:

Ministery of Science, Technology and Environment