Walter Goad Papers

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Date: 1942-2000 | Size: 7 Linear feet

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Abstract

A physicist with the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Walter Goad became interested in molecular biology in the mid-1960s, devoting nearly all of his research to the analysis, storage and retrieval of information relating to nucleic acid sequences by the early 1970s. He was among the founders of GenBank, the world's first nucleic acid database, and was influential in the development of computational techniques for the analysis of DNA sequences. In the late 1980s, he served on the steering committee overseeing the establishment of the Human Genome Project. The Goad Papers relate primarily to the establishment and early operation of GenBank, the early phases of the Human Genome Project, and, more generally, to Goad's role as godfather of the new field of bioinformatics.

Background note

From his roots in the red clay soil of rural Georgia during the Depression, Walter Goad went on to a distinguished career in two disparate fields: nuclear weapons design and bioinformatics. Having lived in various towns in Georgia and graduating from Grainger High School in Kinston, N.C., in 1942, Goad set out to become a radio technician and expand his horizons by heading north for the first time. As would be true throughout his early years, his experience would be brief, but fruitful. Shortly after accepting a position with a station in Schenectady, N.Y., Goad was taken under the wing of his employer, who steered him toward college, helping arrange a scholarship at nearby Union College to make it all possible.

With America's entry in the Second World War, however, Goad's college plans changed. At the end of his freshman year, when he became eligible for the draft, Goad enlisted in the Navy and earned a spot in the V-12 officers' training program. The program allowed Goad, along with a small number of other candidates that included Baruch Blumberg, to continue toward his B.S. in physics, which he was awarded in the spring of 1945, just as the war was ending in Europe. His subsequent military career was nearly as brief as his career in radio. After an additional four months of training at midshipman's school in Annapolis, Goad was detached to the Pacific to complete his military obligation aboard a submarine chaser. By the following spring, his service was no longer needed, and he returned home to enter the University of California, Berkeley, as one of the horde of returning veterans pursuing a graduate degree in physics. The departure of Robert Oppenheimer later that year, however, took the luster off of Berkeley and as the appeal of the overtaxed program waned, Goad decided to transfer to Duke to work under the up and coming Lothar Nordheim on a project eventually titled A Theoretical Study of Extensive Cosmic Ray Air Showers (1954).

Yet again, Goad's path shifted. During the Spring 1950, Nordheim took a leave of absence to work at Los Alamos National Laboratory, inviting Goad to accompany him and complete his dissertation in New Mexico. Assigned to work with the Theoretical Division, Goad's first priority was to complete his dissertation, but he rapidly became a valued member of the design team working on the hydrogen bomb (he witnessed the first test on Eniwetok (Enewetak) Atoll in November 1952), and except for two sabbatical years, never again left the Laboratory. Goad's association with Los Alamos was personal, as well as professional: in 1952, he met and married Maxine Steineke, a graduate student in physics from Stanford working at the Laboratory with whom he had three children.

Although Goad's residence was firmly settled, his intellectual interests gradually evolved. By the early 1960s, he and a small number of colleagues at Los Alamos began to take up an interest in the emerging field of molecular biology. Spending a sabbatical year at the University of Colorado medical school (1964-1965) to strengthen his knowledge of the field, Goad began to apply himself to the challenges posed by the rapid accumulation of nucleic acid data, and after another sabbatical at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England (1970-1971), he turned his full efforts to molecular research. When George Bell created group T-10 at Los Alamos (Theoretical Biology and Biophysics) in 1974, Goad became one of its charter members.

To molecular biology, Goad brought a suite of quantitative skills and a strong knowledge of computing. As early as the late 1960s, he made efforts to address the problems associated with the storage, retrieval, and analysis of molecular data, conceiving of the computer as a central tool for collaborative and analytical work in molecular biology. Following a 1979 meeting at the Rockefeller University to discuss how these data could be managed and exploited, Goad and his Los Alamos colleagues established the Los Alamos Sequence Data Bank and began to develop software for sequence analysis. Goad conceived of expanding the database nationally and internationally.

With funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), among other agencies, the core facility at Los Alamos was expanded in collaboration with Bolt, Baranek, and Newman (BBN, the firm that had handled the construction of ARPANet in the late 1960s), and in 1982, the database was rechristened GenBank. The base of its operations remained at Los Alamos, as it was operated successively under the control of BBN (1982-1987), IntelliGenetics (1987-1992), and (since 1992) the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Goad also helped to establish a strong working relationship with parallel efforts in Europe (the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL) and Japan (DNA Database of Japan, DDBJ).

The success of GenBank in turn laid much of the groundwork for the Human Genome Project which followed in the late 1980s and 1990s. Begun formally in 1990 as an effort to identify, map, and sequence all of the genes in the human genome, the Human Genome Project benefited both conceptually and practically from GenBank, and Goad was an early member of the the Human Genome Advisory Panel.

For his efforts on behalf of GenBank, Goad received a Los Alamos National Laboratory Distinguished Service Award, and the Laboratory bestowed its highest honor, making him a Laboratory Fellow. He was also a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Walter Goad died of a stroke in Santa Fe on November 2, 2000.

Scope and content

The papers of Walter Goad, a nuclear physicist from Los Alamos Labs and pioneer in bioinformatics, consist of six linear feet of materials documenting the founding of GenBank and the early phases of the Human Genome Project. Bringing the quantitative skills of a physicist to bear on the problem of the analysis, storage and retrieval of molecular biological information, Goad was instrumental in the creation of the first nucleic acid sequence databank.

The collection is oriented almost exclusively toward the phase of Goad's career after he had taken up molecular biology. Apart from a small number of letters dating from the early 1940s, when Goad was seeking his first job, and an interesting response to the Federation of American Scientists' statement on hydrogen bomb testing from 1953, there is nothing to document his career prior to his conversion to DNA. The relatively limited correspondence (0.5 linear feet) in the Series I is primarily personal in nature, however Goad's extensive exchanges with his friend, Nobel laureate Sidney Altman, reveals a great deal about their mutual scientific interests and attitudes. Goad's stand on behalf of his Los Alamos colleague, Wen Ho Lee, accused of providing sensitive information on nuclear weapons to the People's Republic of China, is well documented.

Series II consists of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, notes, and printed materials directly or indirectly relating to GenBank, including planning documents, contracts for the construction of the databank, materials documenting the role of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in facilitating the project, information on "competitors" and colleagues, workshops and conferences, and correspondence with Bolt, Baranek and Newman, the contractor for database construction and distribution (and the firm who developed ARPANET, networking routers, and email, as well as introducing the @ sign).

Goad's role in the Human Genome Project was smaller, though still important, and Series III includes approximately one linear foot of manuscripts, correspondence, and notes relating to meeting of the Human Genome Project steering committee in the project's planning phases.

Series I.	Correspondence and notes, 1942-2000	(1 box; 0.5 linear feet)
Series II.	Works by Goad, 1953-2000	(1 box; 0.5 linear feet)
Series III.	GenBank materials, 1979-1987	(4 boxes; 2 linear feet)
Series IV.	Human Genome Project, 1983-1993	(2 boxes; 1 linear foot)
Series V.	Conferences and workshops, 1980-1988	(2 boxes; 1 linear foot)
Series VI.	Biographical and personal, 1942-2001	(1 box; 1 linear foot)
Series VII.	Miscellaneous and photographs, 1945-2000	(1 box; 1 linear foot)

Digital objects note

This collection contains digital materials that are available in the APS Digital Library. Links to these materials are provided with context in the inventory of this finding aid. A general listing of digital objects may also be found here.

Collection Information

Provenance

The Goad Papers were donated to the APS in 2001 by Maxine S. Goad, through Chris Goad and Baruch Blumberg.

Preferred citation

Cite as: Walter B. Goad Papers, American Philosophical Society.

Processing information

Catalogued by rsc, 2001.

Separated material

Two posters and a scrapbook are housed with oversized materials.

Index

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Indexing Terms

Corporate Name(s)

Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
CODATA
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Federal Bureau of Investigation
GenBank
Intelligenetics
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)

Personal Name(s)

Altman, Sidney, 1939-
Bell, George I., 1926-2000
Bitensky, Mark
Blumberg, Baruch S., 1925-2011
Brutlag, Douglas
Burks, Christian
Cantor, Charles R.
Comings, David E.
Dayhoff, Margaret O.
Fickett, James W.
Fitch, Walter M., 1929-2011
Gilbert, Walter
Goad, Maxine S.
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000
Jordan, Elke
Kanehisa, Minoru
Lee, Wen Ho
Lerman, Leonard
Maxam, Allan M.
Moyzis, Robert K.
Puck, Theodore T. (Theodore Thomas), 1916-2005
Roberts, Richard J.
Smith, Temple F.
Teller, Edward, 1908-2003
Wada, Akiyoshi

Subject(s)

Bioinformatics
Gene mapping
Genomics
Human Genome Project
Hydrogen bomb
Molecular biology
Molecular genetics
Nucleic acid probes
Nucleotide sequence -- Data processing
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Strategic Defense Initiative
Supercomputers

Collection overview


Series I. Correspondence and notes	1942-2000	Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Miscellaneous correspondence, reports, and legal documents of both a professional and personal nature. The most extensive body of correspondence consists of numerous email exchanges with Sidney Altman, a close friend and 1989 Nobel laureate in chemistry, and there are less extensive exchanges with Nobel laureates Baruch Blumberg and Max Perutz. While the correspondence with Altman is largely personal, both correspondents touch on a wide range of topics, from Ernst Mayr's alleged antipathy to molecular biology to hierarchical theories of evolution to current politics. Goad's annual progress reports to Los Alamos provide interesting insight into the evolution of his views on molecular biology between the late 1960s and mid-1970s when his commitment to the field was consolidated and when he moved into Los Alamos group T-10, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics. Equally important is a series of files relating to what might have been the highest profile event of his career: his efforts on behalf of his Los Alamos colleague, Wen Ho Lee, who had been accused of supplying secret information about nuclear weapons research to the People's Republic of China. Goad took a prominent role in marshalling support among scientists and in the media, and supplied an affidavit (his "declaration") on behalf of Lee at trial.

Series II. Works by Goad		Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Selected works, published and semi-published, by Goad from throughout his career. These include a copy of his dissertation, A Theoretical Study of Extensive Cosmic Ray Air Showers (Duke University, 1954), articles (not separately inventoried), book reviews, and reviews of grant and research proposals by peers.

Series III. GenBank		Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Materials relating to the founding and first ten years of operation of GenBank, including general correspondence, correspondence with Bolt, Baranek and Newman (contractors for the database and networking operations), contracts with government agencies, and grant proposals. As a member of the GenBank Advisory Group, Goad took part in meetings concerning the structuring of the database, its relationships with similar enterprises in the United States, Europe and Japan, and in reporting on its development. Along with selected minutes of the Advisory Group, the series includes memos and other documents submitted to Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to document GenBank-related activities, information on "competitors" and peers (e.g. Genet, MolGen, PROPHET, and Japanese nucleic acid data banks), studies of computing needs and facilities for GenBank, and users' manuals for submitting data to GenBank and using the database. Materials filed under EMBL consist primarily of correspondence and documents relating to meetings with EMBL and documents presented to Los Alamos to support requests for reimbursement. The "Los Alamos Internal documents" include Goad's status reports to the Lab and his prospectuses for research and funding submitted to supervisors. These provide an important perspective on the internal support at Los Alamos for the development of GenBank and Among the more interesting manuscripts in the series are "Computer Storage and Analysis of DNA Sequences," 1982 (a status report to the Institutional Supporting Research and Development); "DNA as Molecular Processor," ca.1984 (proposal); "Identification of Functional Similarities in Nucleic Acid Sequences," 1984 (draft proposal), and a draft of Jim Fickett's "five year plan" for the redesign of GenBank, 1987. A printout of a program in FORTRAN for detecting homologous sequences, 1984, is a relic of an earlier era of programming.

Series IV. Human Genome Project		Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Materials relating primarily to the planning stages for the Human Genome Project, many emanating from Goad's participation in the Advisory Panel. Goad attended several early planing workshops in which the sequencing and analytical technologies were fleshed out, with the intention of tapping newer technologies to scale up the mapping and sequencing enterprise, including polymerase chain reaction and the intensive use of computers and robotic approaches. In addition to a small suite of materials from the Human Genome Management Plan workshop, the final report from the Human Genome Workshop held in Santa Fe, 1986, provides a good technological and conceptual baseline for the project.

Series V. Conferences and workshops		Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Information on a variety of molecular biological and data analysis conferences and workshops in which Goad participated. The most voluminous files are those from the CODATA conferences and Numerical Data Advisory Board of the NRC, but there is information on the NIGMS Nucleic Acid Sequence Data Bank Workshop (1980); the Aspen Center conference of the Acquisition, Integration, and Analysis of Molecular Genetic Information (1982); the NSF Advisory Committee on Advanced Computing (1983-1984); the Hayashibara Forum (Okayama, Japan, 1987); the Complex Carbohydrate Structure Data Base Workshop (1986); the workshop "Exploring the Role of Robotics and Automation in Decoding the Human Genome" (1987); and the Workshop on Algorithms for Molecular Genetics (1988). The series includes two interesting typescripts: "Data Management for Physical Mapping" and "Notes on the Lehrach Probe Hybridization Map" by G. P. Smith, both from 1987.

Series VI. Biographical and personal		Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Miscellaneous materials of a biographical, autobiographical, or personal nature, including Goad's diplomas, certificates of fellowship in scientific societies, his military service records, and articles about Goad and his research that appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Science, Omni, the Los Alamos Newsbulletin, and local newspapers. The series contains two two-page autobiographical pieces written by Goad, and a longer, though incomplete memoir, written ca.2000.

Series VII. Miscellaneous and photographs		Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Miscellaneous manuscript materials and candid and studio photographs of Goad, his family, and colleagues. The manuscripts contain an interesting series of drafts from the Executive Committee of the Los Alamos Branch of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), March 1955, objecting to the tone of a statement issued by the national FAS of hydrogen bomb testing, and a typescript "Comments on FAS Release of H-Bomb Test Dangers." Also included are a bound laboratory notebook and miscellaneous notes from Goad's research in bioinformatics,

Detailed Inventory


Series I. Correspondence and notes	1942-2000			Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Miscellaneous correspondence, reports, and legal documents of both a professional and personal nature. The most extensive body of correspondence consists of numerous email exchanges with Sidney Altman, a close friend and 1989 Nobel laureate in chemistry, and there are less extensive exchanges with Nobel laureates Baruch Blumberg and Max Perutz. While the correspondence with Altman is largely personal, both correspondents touch on a wide range of topics, from Ernst Mayr's alleged antipathy to molecular biology to hierarchical theories of evolution to current politics. Goad's annual progress reports to Los Alamos provide interesting insight into the evolution of his views on molecular biology between the late 1960s and mid-1970s when his commitment to the field was consolidated and when he moved into Los Alamos group T-10, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics. Equally important is a series of files relating to what might have been the highest profile event of his career: his efforts on behalf of his Los Alamos colleague, Wen Ho Lee, who had been accused of supplying secret information about nuclear weapons research to the People's Republic of China. Goad took a prominent role in marshalling support among scientists and in the media, and supplied an affidavit (his "declaration") on behalf of Lee at trial.
Altman, Sidney, 1939-	1997-2000	2 folders	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Correspondence, primarily e-mail, with Nobel laureate Sidney Altman
Folder 1	1997		folder 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Folder 2	1998-2000		folder 2	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Bell, G. I. and Walter Goad	1980 December 4	2p.	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Memo to R. Ewald. Prospective National DNA Sequence Library and Analysis Center needs External Computer Network Access to CCF
Bingham, Jeff	1987	2 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Blumberg, Baruch S., 1925-	1988, 1992	2 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Brownell, Robert	1970, 1983	2 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Carruthers, Peter	1974, 1981	2 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Davis, Joel	1988	3p.	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000	1942-2000	10 folders	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Correspondence regarding first job	1942	4 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Los Alamos reports	1969	1 item	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
List of Goad's publications in theoretical biology
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Los Alamos reports	1972	8 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes TMs "Numerical Analysis of Gel Permeation Chromatograms" (2 copies); "Macromolecular Diffusion" (2 copies); letter to LASL; and "Progress Abstract;" and note to contributors to Enzyme-Structure part D
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Los Alamos reports	1973	5 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes Progress Abstract; TMs "Analysis of Experiments in Radiation Chemistry of DNA"; review of Foundations of Mathematical Biology.
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Los Alamos reports	1974	6 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes Progress Abstract ("Radiation Chemistry of Nucleic Acids"); two office memos; list Publications on Theoretical Biology and Biophysics; and vita of Walter Goad; "Two Research Problems" ("Epidemiology" and "Fundamental Studies of Diffusion")
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Los Alamos reports	1975	4 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes Progress Abstract; list of Publications on Theoretical Biology and Biophysics (2 copies); review of book "Introduction to Mathematical Biology"
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Los Alamos reports	1976		Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes three copies of T-10 Publciations FY-76.
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Los Alamos reports	1977	2 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes report on activities of T-10 (Theoretical Biology and Biophysics) and vita of Walter
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Los Alamos reports and miscellany	1978-2000		Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes "publications FY78"; report for T-10, 1983; computer printout (ca.1983?) on sequence alignment algorithm; photocopy of Los Alamos Administrative Manual, 1987; program for Goad's funeral service, 2000
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Reprint requests	1987, 1989	2 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Kanehisa, Minoru, Roberts, Richard J., 1943-	1991, 2000		Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
King Faisal International Prize	1987	2p.	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Lee, Wen Ho	2000	5 folders	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes copy of indictment against Lee.
Lee, Wen Ho. Appreciation of Walter Goad's contribution to the case of Wen Ho Lee	2000	15p.	folder 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Lee, Wen Ho. Correspondence 1	2000	85p.	folder 2	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Lee, Wen Ho. Correspondence 2	2000		folder 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Lee, Wen Ho. Correspondence 3	2000	56p.	folder 4	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Lee, Wen Ho. Declaration of Walter Goad	2000	11p.	folder 5	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Perelson, Alan S.	2000 August	2 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Perutz, Max, 1914-	1993	2 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Rabson, Alan S.	1986 September 19	14p.	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Site report for Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
Studer, Frank	1982-1995	5 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
United States. Department of Energy	1993 October	4p.	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
United States. Selective Service System	1956	4 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
University of Colorado	1964-1977	23 items	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Wada, Akiyoshi	1982 October	2p.	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Re: cooperation between GenBank and similar databank in Japan
Watanabe, Utaru	1982 September 13	1p.	Box 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Re: cooperation between GenBank and similar databank in Japan

Series II. Works by Goad				Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Selected works, published and semi-published, by Goad from throughout his career. These include a copy of his dissertation, A Theoretical Study of Extensive Cosmic Ray Air Showers (Duke University, 1954), articles (not separately inventoried), book reviews, and reviews of grant and research proposals by peers.
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. A Theoretical Study of Extensive Cosmic Ray Air Showers	1953	117p.	Box 2	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Dissertation, Duke University
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Publications 1	1952-1965	10 items	Box 2	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Publications 2	1968-1977	16 items	Box 2	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Publications 3	1978-1981	4 items	Box 2	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes unsolicited "Proposal to Establish a National Center for Collection, and Computer Storage and Analysis of Nucleic Acid Sequences" submitted by T-10
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Publications 4	1982-1983	5 items	Box 2	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Publications 5	1984-1989	9 items	Box 2	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes copy of Goad's article "Sequence Analysis: Contributions by Ulam to Molecular Genetics," 1989.
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Book reviews	1965-1982	5 items	Box 2	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Peer reviews	1981-1988	ca.100p.	Box 2	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item

Series III. GenBank				Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Materials relating to the founding and first ten years of operation of GenBank, including general correspondence, correspondence with Bolt, Baranek and Newman (contractors for the database and networking operations), contracts with government agencies, and grant proposals. As a member of the GenBank Advisory Group, Goad took part in meetings concerning the structuring of the database, its relationships with similar enterprises in the United States, Europe and Japan, and in reporting on its development. Along with selected minutes of the Advisory Group, the series includes memos and other documents submitted to Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to document GenBank-related activities, information on "competitors" and peers (e.g. Genet, MolGen, PROPHET, and Japanese nucleic acid data banks), studies of computing needs and facilities for GenBank, and users' manuals for submitting data to GenBank and using the database. Materials filed under EMBL consist primarily of correspondence and documents relating to meetings with EMBL and documents presented to Los Alamos to support requests for reimbursement. The "Los Alamos Internal documents" include Goad's status reports to the Lab and his prospectuses for research and funding submitted to supervisors. These provide an important perspective on the internal support at Los Alamos for the development of GenBank and Among the more interesting manuscripts in the series are "Computer Storage and Analysis of DNA Sequences," 1982 (a status report to the Institutional Supporting Research and Development); "DNA as Molecular Processor," ca.1984 (proposal); "Identification of Functional Similarities in Nucleic Acid Sequences," 1984 (draft proposal), and a draft of Jim Fickett's "five year plan" for the redesign of GenBank, 1987. A printout of a program in FORTRAN for detecting homologous sequences, 1984, is a relic of an earlier era of programming.
GenBank. Correspondence 1	1979-1980		Box 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
GenBank. Correspondence 2	1981-1982		Box 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
GenBank. Correspondence 3	1983		Box 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
GenBank. Correspondence 4	1984		Box 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
GenBank. Correspondence 5	1985-1986		Box 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
GenBank. Correspondence 6	1987		Box 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
GenBank. Correspondence with Bolt, Beranek, and Newman 1	1981-1982		Box 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes business proposal and amendments; BBN proposal to NIH
GenBank. Correspondence with Bolt, Beranek, and Newman 2	1982		Box 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Reponses to questions from NIH regarding proposal of 1982
GenBank. Correspondence with Bolt, Beranek, and Newman 3	1983		Box 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Proposal to NIH to support data management, data collection and distribution for GenBank
GenBank. Correspondence with Bolt, Beranek, and Newman 4	1984-1987		Box 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes grant proposal to Dept. of Agriculture for maintenance of plant genetic sequences
GenBank. Contracts 1	1981-1982		Box 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Contracts with NIH, Intelligenetics
GenBank. Contracts 2	1980-1987		Box 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Supporting information for contracts, including correspondence and agreements, resumes for investigators; verification of trademark on "GenBank"
GenBank. Proposals	1981-1987	3 items	Box 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Proposed addendum to R01-GM2706, 1981; "Center for Computer Analysis of Macromolecules,"
GenBank. Advisory Group. Correspondence	1982-1983		Box 4	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Notes and correspondence regarding Advisory Group.
GenBank. Advisory Group. Minutes and notes 1	1984		Box 4	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
GenBank. Advisory Group. Minutes and notes 2	1985		Box 4	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
GenBank. Advisory Group. Minutes and notes 3	1986		Box 4	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
GenBank. Advisory Group. Minutes and notes 4	1987		Box 4	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
GenBank--Miscellaneous. Competitors	1980-1989	7 folders	Box 4	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Materials relating to other nucleic acid databases, either "competitors" or colleagues of GenBank
Genet	1982		folder 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Japanese databases	1982-1986		folder 2	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Molecular Biology Computer Research Resource	1986		folder 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes application for grant from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to USPHS for Molecular Biology Computer Research Resource
MolGen	1980-1981		folder 4	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes "An Introduction for guests pf MOLGEN on SUMEX-AIM," 1980 and 1981; minutes of workshop on need for a nucleic acid sequence database, 1980; and proposal to NSF for funding MOLGEN, 1983
National Biomedical Research Foundation	1980-1982		folder 5	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Re: Margaret Dayhoff's system
PROPHET	1982		folder 6	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Protein Databank	1987-1989		folder 7	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Protein Databank Newsletters no. 40-47
GenBank--Miscellaneous. Computing materials	1979-1987	3 folders	Box 5	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Applications of Supercomputers in Life Sciences	1984-1986		folder 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Materials on Workshop on the Applications of Supercomputers in Life Sciences (1984), including the proceedings, and NSF Office of Advanced Scientific Computing
ESNet	1986-1987		folder 2	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Materials relating to the Energy Sciences Network, including Five Year Networking Plan (1987), minutes, notes and correspondence for Steering Committee; planning and status documents relating to the internet and HEPNET (High Energy Physics Comp. Net.)
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory--T-10 Computer use	1979-1983		folder 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Re: computer use in Division T-10 at Los Alamos
GenBank: The First 15 Years.				Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Abstract: Contains material relating to the Symposium Honoring Dr. Walter Goad.
"Hello Walter."	n. d.	1 item(s)		Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Abstract: Two photographs, a crowd in each holding letters that spell "Hello" and "Walter" respectively. Access digital object: http://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/graphics:4557
GenBank--Miscellaneous. Database design notes	1983-1984		Box 5	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
GenBank--Miscellaneous. Homology program (FORTRAN)	1984		Box 5	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
GenBank--Miscellaneous. EMBL materials 1	1979-1982		Box 5	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Correspondence, agendas, etc. re: workshops and meetings, including "Computing and DNA Sequences" workshop, 1980; proposal for Intl. Workshop on Nucleotide Sequence Databases, 1982; recommendations on Nucleotide Sequence Data Library, 1982; travel reports
GenBank--Miscellaneous. EMBL materials 2	1983-1987		Box 5	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes computer printout of letter from Hamm and Goad regarding LASL/GenBank/EMBL cooperation; notes on EMBL workshop on "Future of the Biocomputing Programme," 1985, including final report
GenBank--Miscellaneous. Los Alamos internal documents	1981-1989	3 folders	Box 5	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Los Alamos internal documents 1	1981-1985		folder 1	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Los Alamos internal documents 2	1986-1987		folder 2	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Los Alamos internal documents 3	1988		folder 3	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes research report by Daniel B. Davidson, 1988; proposals and summaries of activity
GenBank--Miscellaneous. Manuals	1982-1984		Box 6	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Manuals or guides for access and participation in Los Alamos Nucleic Acid Sequence Data Bank, including "Los Alamos Nucleic Acid Sequence Data Bank and Computer Analysis Center"
GenBank--Miscellaneous. Reference materials	1976-1981		Box 6	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Miscellaneous materials relating to database query and design
GenBank--Miscellaneous. "Science article"	1986		Box 6	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Drafts of Bilofsky et al., "Data banks of nucleic acid sequence: GenBank" and Burks et al. "GenBank: The Genetic Sequence Data Bank" (the latter published in Science)
GenBank--Miscellaneous. Submissions forms for data	ca.1985?		Box 6	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
GenBank--Miscellaneous. Viewgraphs	1986-1988		Box 6	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Overhead transparencies for presentations on GenBank
GenBank--Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous materials 1	1979-1982		Box 6	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes data on E. coli, M1 RNA homology search
GenBank--Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous materials 2	1983-1984		Box 6	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes copy of TMs "Nucleotide Sequence Data Banks"
GenBank--Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous materials 3	1985-1986		Box 6	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes flow charts for data and resource management, misc. materials relating to grants; TMs "Redesigning GenBank: An Overview" by Jim Fickett (a "five-year plan")
GenBank--Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous materials 4	1987-1991		Box 6	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes 1987 status report on GenBank, notes on PCR (ca.1990) and DNA denaturation

Series IV. Human Genome Project				Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Materials relating primarily to the planning stages for the Human Genome Project, many emanating from Goad's participation in the Advisory Panel. Goad attended several early planing workshops in which the sequencing and analytical technologies were fleshed out, with the intention of tapping newer technologies to scale up the mapping and sequencing enterprise, including polymerase chain reaction and the intensive use of computers and robotic approaches. In addition to a small suite of materials from the Human Genome Management Plan workshop, the final report from the Human Genome Workshop held in Santa Fe, 1986, provides a good technological and conceptual baseline for the project.
Human Genome Project 1	1986		Box 7	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Some correspondence, planning documents, and miscellany relating to Human Genome Project; respecting planning and methodology for the project
Human Genome Project 2	1987		Box 7	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes statement of operations of Human Genome Project, 1987; published "Report on the Human Genome Initiative," April 1987; and Articles of Incorporation of the Human Genome
Human Genome Project--Grant proposals	1986		Box 7	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes applications and related material to DOE for "Computational Analysis..," "Technical and Eonomic Analysis of Biomass Technologies," "Human Genome: Chromosome-specific Physical Mapping," "Enhancing Genomic DNA Analysis with Robotic Automation"
Human Genome Project--Publications 1	1986		Box 7	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Includes semi-published(?) position paper on major issues facing the Project by harles Cantor; "DOE Human Genomic Technical Tool Development Program Recommendations" by Temple Smith; "Human Genome Initiative Proposal for Discussion by the HERAC DOE Subcommittee"
Human Genome Project--Publications 2	1988		Box 7	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Publications, drafts, and notes on Sirotkin and Loehr, "The Interface Between Computational Science and Nucleic Acid Sequencing"; Moyzis et al., "The Distribution of Interspeed Repetitive DNA Sequences..."; and Sirotkin et al. "Computer Simulation..."
Human Genome Project--Publications 3	1988		Box 7	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Drafts and assorted materials relating to Goad et al., "Multiplex Walking: A Proposal"
Human Genome Project--OTA 1	1986-1987		Box 7	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Materials relating to Mapping the Human Genome Advisory Panel Meeting, 1987, including proposal for an OTA assessment and an OTA preliminary memo on "Status of Mapping and Sequencing" of project
Human Genome Project--OTA 2	1987		Box 7	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Drafts of chapters 2-7 of OTA report
Human Genome Project--Site visits	1986-1993		Box 8	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Material re: site visits to Laboratory of Mathematical Biology, National Cancer Institute
Human Genome Project--Workshops (Santa Fe, 1986) 1	1985		Box 8	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Final report packet from Human Genome Workshop (Santa Cruz, Calif., 1985), including list of participants; "Program for Large-Scale Analysis of Nucleotide Sequences" (Anderson and Anderson); agenda; "Technology" (Comings); "Memo" (Gilbert); "Cost of Sequencing" (Burks); memo for Howard Hughes Medical Inst.
Human Genome Project--Workshops (Santa Fe, 1986) 2	1986		Box 8	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Comments from participants in Human Genome Workshop (Santa Fe, N.M., 1986), included with final report. Also: "Models of the enterprise" and draft and email from Goad to Mark Bitensky of his thoughts on the Human Genome Project; including David C. Ward, "Summary Statement of DNA Sequencing Technology." Also: "non-technical document" relating to sequencing the
Human Genome Project--Workshops (Santa Cruz, 1985)	1985		Box 8	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
"Notes and conclusions from the Human Genome Workshop"
Human Genome Project--Workshops (Denver, 1987)	1987		Box 8	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Documents from Human Genome Management Plan workshop, including description of Howard Hughes Med. Inst. participation, American Type Culture Collection (re: repository of DNA probes); Jett et al. "A Method for Rapid Base Sequencing in DNA"; DOE grant applications for Human Recombinant DNA Library and "Human Genome Sequencing: Robotic Vision"; Chuck Watson on data management; "Advanced Concepts for Base Sequencing in DNA"

Series V. Conferences and workshops				Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Information on a variety of molecular biological and data analysis conferences and workshops in which Goad participated. The most voluminous files are those from the CODATA conferences and Numerical Data Advisory Board of the NRC, but there is information on the NIGMS Nucleic Acid Sequence Data Bank Workshop (1980); the Aspen Center conference of the Acquisition, Integration, and Analysis of Molecular Genetic Information (1982); the NSF Advisory Committee on Advanced Computing (1983-1984); the Hayashibara Forum (Okayama, Japan, 1987); the Complex Carbohydrate Structure Data Base Workshop (1986); the workshop "Exploring the Role of Robotics and Automation in Decoding the Human Genome" (1987); and the Workshop on Algorithms for Molecular Genetics (1988). The series includes two interesting typescripts: "Data Management for Physical Mapping" and "Notes on the Lehrach Probe Hybridization Map" by G. P. Smith, both from 1987.
Acquisition, Integration, and Analysis of Molecular Genetic Information... (Aspen Center for Physics, 1982)	1982		Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Information from Workshop on Computational Analysis of DNA Sequences held at Aspen Center for Physics, August-Sept., 1982, including "Terminal Progress Report"
Baca Conference	1981		Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Schedule for conference
Committee on Biotechnology Nomenclature and Information Organization	1986		Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Hayashibara Forum	1987		Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Workshop in Okayama, Japan,organized by Akiyoshi Wada, including abstracts of papers presented, offprints, list of participants.
CODATA 1	1984		Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Material relating to CODATA and Numerical Data Advisory Board, including report of the Education Panel of the Numerical Data Advisory Board.
CODATA 2	1985-1986		Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Material relating to CODATA and Numerical Data Advisory Board.
CODATA 3	1987		Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Documents and correspondence relating to 1st CODATA Workshop (Gaithersburg, 1987), including minutes of steering committee (Goad was a member).
CODATA 4	1984-1985	4 items	Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Mintues of Meetings of the Numerical Data Advisory Board, U.S. National Committee for CODATA (July 23, 1984, Jan. 29, 1985; July 11, 1985).
Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)	1988		Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Materials for participants in Molecular Evolution course at MBL, including list of participant, schedule, list of participants, and overhead transparencies. Photo of participants transferred to Series VI: Photographs.
National Library of Medicine	1988		Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Materials for Workshop on Algorithms for Molecular Genetics
National Institute of General Medical Sciences	1980		Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Nucleic Acid Sequence Data Bank Workshop (1980 : Bethesda, Md.), including agenda, notes, and Goad's "Summary and observations"
National Institute of Health	1987	3 items	Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Minutes of Working Group (Los Alamos) for July 14 and August 11, 1987.
National Science Foundation	1983-1984		Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Materials relating to Advisory Committee on Advanced Computing, including draft proposal for USERNET participation.
United States. Department of Energy 1	1986		Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Materials relating to the Complex Carbohydrate Structure Data Base Workshop (1987 : Auburn, N.Y.), including list of participants, summary.
United States. Department of Energy 2	1987		Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Materials relating to workshop: Exploring the Role of Robotics and Automation in Decoding the Human Genome, including agenda, list of participants, report
United States. Department of Energy 3	1987		Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Materials relating to workshop on physical mapping of genome, including draft TMs on "Data Management for Physical Mapping" and "Notes on the Lehrach Probe Hybridization Map" by G. P. Smith.
Miscellaneous	1984-1987		Box 9	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Miscellaneous materials relating to various conferences and symposia, including the Symposium on the Analysis of Genetic Squences and the Symposium on Biological Applications on Cray

Series VI. Biographical and personal				Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Miscellaneous materials of a biographical, autobiographical, or personal nature, including Goad's diplomas, certificates of fellowship in scientific societies, his military service records, and articles about Goad and his research that appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Science, Omni, the Los Alamos Newsbulletin, and local newspapers. The series contains two two-page autobiographical pieces written by Goad, and a longer, though incomplete memoir, written ca.2000.
Articles about Goad--Los Alamos Bulletin	1982-1987	8 items	Box 11	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Articles mentioning Goad extracted from the Los Alamos National Laboratory Newsbulletin
Articles about Goad--Miscellaneous	1980-2001	12 items	Box 11	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Articles mentioning Goad from various publications, including Science, Omni, NY Times
Curriculum vita	1985-1988	4 items	Box 11	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Three versions of Goad's c.v.
Family materials	1952-2000		Box 11	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Miscellaneous family-related material, including chronology of his life by his wife, Maxine Goad; Goad genealogy; annual family newsletters (1989-2000), selected correspondence with wife and children; wedding announcement, and article on Maxine Goad's career.
Grainger High School Yearbook	1942		Box 11	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Yearbook, with signatures, from Goad's senior year in high school, Kinston, N.C.
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Memoir (incomplete)	1994-2000	3 items	Box 11	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Three autobiographical memoirs of Goad, all brief, the last incomplete.
Memorial gathering	2000	8 items	Box 11	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Program for memorial gathering and statements by friends and colleagues read there.
Military service record	1942-1954		Box 11	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Official records of Goad's service in the Navy and Naval Reserve.
Obituaries	2000	8 items	Box 11	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Organizations and Societies	1945-1975	5 items	Box 11	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Membership certificates or notice of election to Fellowship in American Association for the Advancement of Science (1968) and American Physical Society (1975); Eleanor Roosevelt Inst. For Cancer Research (1974); and Sigma Xi (1945); appointment as Laboratory Fellow, Los Alamos (1987).
Union College Commencement Exercises (Program)	1945	1 item	Box 11	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Diplomas	1942-1954	3 items	Box 11	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
High School Diploma (Grainger High School, Kinston, N.C., 1942), BS, Union College (1945), Ph.D., Duke (1954)
Los Alamos National Laboratory Certificate of Excellence	1988	1 item	Box 11	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
GenBank: The First 15 Years. A Symposium Honoring Dr. Walter Goad	1991	Scrapbook	Box 11	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item

Series VII. Miscellaneous and photographs				Request Series for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Series
Miscellaneous manuscript materials and candid and studio photographs of Goad, his family, and colleagues. The manuscripts contain an interesting series of drafts from the Executive Committee of the Los Alamos Branch of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), March 1955, objecting to the tone of a statement issued by the national FAS of hydrogen bomb testing, and a typescript "Comments on FAS Release of H-Bomb Test Dangers." Also included are a bound laboratory notebook and miscellaneous notes from Goad's research in bioinformatics,
H-bomb memoranda	1955		Box 12	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Responses to Federation of American Scientists statement on the H-bomb from the Los Alamos Chapter of the FAS, including draft to the Executive Committee of the Los Alamos Chapter objecting to the tone of the statement; a memorandum to the Executive Committee of the Los Alamos Chapter; a draft of a statement from the Los Alamos Chapter, and "Comments on FAS Release of H-Bomb Test Dangers;" misc. drafts
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Laboratory notebook	1972-1979	1 vol.	Box 12	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Goad, Walter B., 1925-2000. Laboratory notes	n.d.		Box 12	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Walter B. Goad at Los Alamos	1982-1987	7 photoprints	Box 12	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Formal and informal portraits of Goad, including: 1) With model of DNA (for awarding contract toGenBank), 1985 2) Goad and Jim Fickett, 1982 3) Goad and unidentified female colleague, 1982 4) Goad, Christian Burks, et al. and Los Alamos, 1984 5) Goad at blackboard, Los Alamos, 1984 6) Goad at computer, 1984 7) Goad in his office at Los Alamos, 1987 Access digital object: http://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/graphics:4556
Walter B. Goad portraits	1945-2000	17 photoprints	Box 12	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Miscellaneous photos of Goad:, including: 1) Goad as naval officer, 1945 2) Goad and Maxine Steineke Goad upon engagement, August 1952 3) Goad and Maxine Goad in the garden of their home in El Rancho, N.M., April 1998 (color) 4, 5) Goad at home in El Rancho, N.M., fall 1979 (two photos, color); 6) Studio portrait, ca.1980 7) Goad and three colleagues at Eleanor Roosevelt Inst. Genetic Symposium, fall 1986 8) Goad, Ted Puck, Leonard Lerman, and Arthur Robinson at Eleanor Roosevelt Inst. Genetic Symposium, fall 1986 9, 10) Goad and Goad and Maxine Goad on rafting trip on Rio Grande, Tex., March 1987 (2 photos, color) 11) Goad on Folkboat, B.C. 1990 (color) 12) Goad on Folkboat, Desolation Sound, B.C. May 1992 (color) 13) Goad at anchor, Aristazabal Island, B.C., August 1996 (color) 14-17) Goad on trip to Chilean Andes, March 2000 (4 photos, color)
Walter B. Goad family	1972-1998	13 photoprints	Box 12	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Candid photos of Goad, his wife, children, and grandchildren, most in color
Los Alamos, 25 Years Service Awards	1976	1 photoprint	Box 12	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Group portrait of recipient of 25 Years Service Awards, Los Alamos, January 22, 1976
Molecular Evolution Course, Woods Hole	1988	1 photoprint	Box 12	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Group portrait of participants in Molecular Evolution Course held at Woods Hole, 1988
Goad's Travels: The Gulf of California Under Sail	1968	1 vol. (27p. and 9 photoprints)	Box 12	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Diary of family sailing outing to Gulf of California, 1968
Goad's Travels: British Columbia Under Sail	1993, 1995	2 vols. (4 photoprints)	Box 12	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Maxine Goad's diaries of sailing vacations in British Columbia
Photos for publication	ca.1982-1985	34 photoprints	Box 12	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Miscellaneous photos of figures from published works
Miscellaneous overhead transparencies	ca.1982-1985		Box 12	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Miscellaneous transparencies and other materials used in presentations regarding GenBank and nucleic acid databases and analysis
Posters	1991, 1994	2 items	Box OS	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
Poster for Symposium Honoring Walter Goad (NIGMS, 1991), and for Theoretical and Computational Biology Workshop (1994)