Twenty-five years of big biology
Twenty-five years ago, the newly created US National Center for Human Genome Research (now the National Human Genome Research Institute; NHGRI), which the three of us have each directed, joined forces with US and international partners to launch the Human Genome Project (HGP). What happened next rep...
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Published in | Nature (London) Vol. 526; no. 7571; pp. 29 - 31 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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London
Nature Publishing Group
01.10.2015
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Summary: | Twenty-five years ago, the newly created US National Center for Human Genome Research (now the National Human Genome Research Institute; NHGRI), which the three of us have each directed, joined forces with US and international partners to launch the Human Genome Project (HGP). What happened next represents one of the most historically significant scientific endeavours: a 13-year quest to sequence all three billion base pairs of the human genome. |
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ISSN: | 0028-0836 1476-4687 |
DOI: | 10.1038/526029a |