Contents

Articles
•  From Human Genome to Rice Genome and Beyond. BGI
-- A Success Story of Jumpstarting Genomic Projects
•  Rice Genomics and the Future of Publicly Funded Rice Research
•  Rice Bioinformatics: From Sequences to Applications
•  Rice Microarray Project in Japan
•  Rice Functional Genomics by T-DNA Insertional Mutagenesis
•  Rice Functional Genomics by Transposon Mutagenesis
•  Rice Gene Machine: A Vehicle for Finding Functions of Cereal Genes
•  Hybrid Rice: The Future of Rice Cultivation
•  Rice Biotech Research at Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute
•  An International Campaign for Agricultural and Livestock Genomics (CALG)

Calendar of Events
•  A comprehensive listing of upcoming biotechnology conferences in Asia-Pacific