In 1989 the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute provided funding to establish a central repository for human
genetic mapping data. This project ultimately resulted in the creation of the GDB Human Genome DataBase in September 1990. In order to ensure a high degree of quality, records within GDB were subjected to a curation process by human genetics specialists, including the
HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee. Established under the leadership of Peter Pearson and Dick Lucier, GDB received financial support from the
US Department of Energy and the
National Institutes of Health. However that same year,
A. Jamie Cuticchia obtained funding from Canadian public and private sources to continue the operations of GDB. While the data curation continued to be performed at Johns Hopkins, GDB central operations were moved to The Hospital for Sick Children (HSC) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In November 2001, the HSC fired Cuticchia due to a dispute over the GDB website domain name. GDB was closed in 2008 after control of the project reverted to Johns Hopkins. ==References==