Environmental Health Perspectives, January 1st, 2001
The Human Genome Project (HGP) began in 1990 as a collaboration of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The project's goals include designing detailed genetic and physical maps of the human genome to determine the complete nucleotide sequence of the three billion base pairs that comprise human DNA and to identify the estimated 100,000 genes within the human genome. While developing tools for data analysis, the project also aspires to store this information in a database.
To provide both background and updates on this ambitious undertaking, the DOE...
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