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Video about Gene Codes and Howard
Cash:
Television Reports on Gene Codes:
The ABC affiliate in Detroit, WXYZ-TV
Channel 7 did a story on Gene Codes on July 18, 2002 for
the 11:00 news. It was a feature by Action News reporter
Heather
Catallo, winner of the 1998 Hearst National Television
Award for Excellence in Journalism. The story specifically
concentrates on CEO Howard Cash and the company's
involvement in the forensic DNA identification software
being written for New York City's Chief Medical Examiner's
Office for the victims of the World Trade Center attack.
CBS News does reports on the Chief Medical Examiner's
Office in New York on the first anniversary of the September
11th attacks. Director of Forensic Biology Dr. Robert Shaler
is interviewed and is shown using the M-FISys
software package from Gene Codes Forensics.
Bio IT World Conference 2004:
Gene Codes Forensics gave a presentation on
Bioinformatics for the September 11th project. for the 2004
Bio IT
World Conference held in Boston, authored by Dr.
Simon Mercer. The presentation was held on Wednesday,
March 31. Below is a link to BioIT World's abstract of the
presentation.
AAFS Conference 2003:
Gene Codes Forensics participated in this year's annual
meeting of the American
Academy of Forensic Sciences, particularly taking part
in the Workshop Extracting DNA Profiles from Challenging
Sample Materials on February 17, 2003. The presentation
given by Jonathan
Hoyle is The
Mathematics of DNA Identification: Extracting Information
from Kinships and Limited Profiles. This presentation
covers the mathematical aspect of the identification
software used for the World Trade Center project. The slides
are available from the links below.
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The presentation Mathematics of Forensic DNA Identification is available to download in these formats:
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PSB Conference 2003:
Gene Codes presented a special paper for the 2003
Pacific Symposium on
BioComputing held in Hawaii, authored by Howard
Cash, Jonathan
Hoyle and Amy Sutton. The presentation was held on
Monday, January 6. Below is a link to the presentation.
Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2002:
Gene Codes President and CEO Howard
Cash won the 2002 Entrepeneur
of the Year Award for Health Sciences in Eastern
Michigan.
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For more information on M-FISys, contact howardc@genecodes.com .