Human Genome Project aims to finish ‘working draft’ next year

The human genome project aims for 2003.

Bold is the operative word for the goals in the new five-year plan for the U.S. Human Genome Project as presented at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) advisory council meeting on September 14, 1998. (See Box 1 for an overview of the 5-year plan. The complete plan is published in the October 23, 1998 issue of Science.) The plan itself includes such words as ‘‘ambitious’’ and e...

The Human Genome Project: the next decade.

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Interview with Duncan Campbell: After the Draft Sequence, What Next for the Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre?

RDC: With the huge amount of draft sequence now available, we have seen increased use of the bioinformatics tools already on offer from the HGMP-RC, such as NIX and PIX. NIX is a suite of programs for database screening by BLAST, repeat masking and exon prediction for the identification of genes from genomic sequences. PIX is a protein equivalent of NIX, with BLAST searches, programs for domain...

The Human Genome Project.

Dear readers, The last few decades have seen a number of exciting developments in genetics. First, Watson and Crick broke the genetic code; since then, tech-nologic and methodologic breakthroughs have permitted the study and direct manipulation of our DNA. Now there is an international ground swell to map and sequence the human genome. The Bush administration had originally requested $128 milli...