December, 1998: Mary Lee Ledbetter and I inspired by Pat Brown's presentation about microarrys.

December 1999: GCAT is created.

December 2000:

• 20 participating faculty and their students (US and Canada).
• Student results posted on web servers.
• 50 people on GCAT-L listserv.
• Pat Brown generously donated 135 yeast ORF DNA microarrays.
• Genisphere cut special 3DNA Probe Kit deal for GCAT members.
• Richard Bookman (U. Miami, FL) donated yeast mini-chips (96 genes, each spotted 10 times).
• Lee Hood and Tom Milac provided access to DNA microarray readers.
• Denise Wallack launched new research course using yeast genomics.