Human Genome Project

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The Human Genome Project was an international scientific research initiative that successfully mapped and sequenced the entire human DNA genome, revolutionizing genetics and biomedical research.


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instanceOf genomics research project
international scientific collaboration
large-scale sequencing project
announcedDraftGenomeYear 2000
comparedWith Celera Genomics human genome project
completionYear 2003
coordinatedBy U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
countryInvolved Canada
China
France
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
United States
dataAccessPolicy open access
dataReleasePrinciple Bermuda Principles
declaredCompleteChromosomeSequenceYear 2022
declaredEssentiallyCompleteYear 2003
estimatedGenomeSizeBasePairs approximately 3 billion
estimatedNumberOfGenes 20000–25000
field bioinformatics
genetics
genomics
molecular biology
fundedBy U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. National Institutes of Health
Wellcome Trust
international government agencies
hasComponent Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications program
human genome sequencing
model organism genome projects
impact accelerated biomedical research
advanced understanding of human evolution
enabled genome-wide association studies
facilitated personalized medicine
influenced ethical and policy debates on genetic information
revolutionized genetics research
stimulated development of high-throughput sequencing technologies
languageOfWork English
notableLeader Francis S. Collins
James D. Watson
John Sulston
objective address ethical, legal, and social implications of genomics
determine the sequence of the human genome
develop bioinformatics tools for genome analysis
develop new sequencing technologies
identify all human genes
make sequence data freely available to the scientific community
produced catalogs of human genetic variation
genetic and physical maps of human chromosomes
public genomic databases
reference human genome sequence
sequencingStrategy hierarchical shotgun sequencing
startYear 1990


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