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 inNature (London) Vol. 526; no. 7571; pp. 29 - 31
Main Authors Green, Eric D, Watson, James D, Collins, Francis S
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group 01.10.2015
Subjects
Bioethics
Biomedical research
Cancer
Comment
Consortia
Data analysis
Ethics
Genomes
Information sharing
Initiatives
Researchers
Science
Studies
Success
United States > US
Africa
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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.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/526029a