ToxSci Advance Access originally published online on April 15, 2003
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Toxicological Sciences 73, 207-208 (2003)
Copyright © 2003 by the Society of Toxicology
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SNPs and Chips: Genomic Data in Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment
FDA National Center For Toxicological Research, Rockville, MD 20857
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The biotechnology revolution is impacting all of the biological sciences, and toxicology is no exception. Perusal of the abstracts of the Societys recent annual meetings confirms that our field is already actively using the powerful new tools of molecular biology to identify and understand the mechanisms of toxic responses. Thus, the Workshop on Toxicogenomics and Risk Assessment sponsored by the Society and discussed in this issue by Cunningham et al. was a timely undertaking.
This was not the first workshop to focus on the application of genomic approaches to risk assessment, but it was unique in a number of respects. First, it brought together thought