SOM-MUT, a new initiative from HUM-MOLGEN

["Carlo Gambacorti MD, National Cancer Institute, Milan - Italy" <gambacorti@anprisc.anapat.istitutotumori.mi.it>]

Dear HUM-MOLGEN Subscribers:

     With the arrival of a new year, we are pleased to offer a
new service to the genetics and clinical community. HUM-MOLGEN
has developed a molecular diagnostic registry database (SOM-MUT) to offer
on-line searches for laboratoriess offering molecular diagnostic
tests for somatic mutations/alterations. This service is
complementary and cross-linked to, but independent from, Helix
(http://www.hslib.washington.edu/helix/), the registry for laboratories
offering germ line mutations.

     Please visit the general page of SOM-MUT
(http://opus.cilea.it/som-mut/);
if you or your laboratory perform tests and are located in Europe or North
America,
take a moment to visit the data entry form ("New Lab Adhesion") and
register the
laboratory and the tests offered. If you experience problems in the
registration process,
please contact dr. Nenad Blau at blau@kispi.unizh.ch

     Finally we ask that you share this information with others
at your institution, especially to those people who  would be
interested in searching the database and/or registering their
laboratory and tests.

For HUM-MOLGEN,

Carlo Gambacorti MD
gambacorti@istitutotumori.mi.it

Nenad Blau PhD
blau@kispi.unizh.ch