INFLUENTIAL CONSORTIUMS CDNA CLONES PRAISED AS GENOME RESEARCH TIME-SAVER - IMAGE GROUPS DNA LIBRARIES ARE MADE FREELY AVAILABLE TO OTHER RESEARCHERS, AS LONG AS THEY, TOO, PASS ON INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC

In less than two years, the IMAGE consortium, are search initiative be gun by four geneticists, has grown from an ad hoc collaboration to an international cooperative effort to freely share complementary DNA clo ne libraries.