The Human Genome Project

The Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project is a 13-year project started in 1990 and coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. The project originally was planned to last 15 years, but rapid technological advances have accelerated the expected completion date to 2003. Project goals are to
·identify all the approximate 30,000 genes in human DNA,
·determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA,
·store this information in databases,
·improve tools for data analysis,
·transfe…