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Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project (HGP) endeavours to map the human
genome down to the nucleotide (or base pair) level and to
identify all the 30-35,000 genes present in it.
The $3 billion project was founded in 1990 by
the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. National Institutes
of Health, and was expected to take 15 years. Due to
widespread international cooperation and advances in the field
of genomics (especially in sequence analysis), as well as huge
advances in computing technology, a rough draft of the genome
was finished in 2000.
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Goals
The goals of the original HGP were not only to
determine all 3 billion base pairs in the human
genome with a minimal error rate, but to also
identify all the genes in this vast amount of
data. This part of the project is still ongoing
although a preliminary count indicates about
30,000 genes in the human genome, which is far
less than predicted by most scientists.Another
goal of the HGP was to develop faster, more
efficient methods for DNA sequencing and sequence
analysis and the transfer of these technologies to
the industry.The process of identifying the
boundaries of genes and other features in raw DNA
sequence is called annotation and is the domain of
bioinformatics. While expert biologists make the
best annotators, such annotation proceeds slowly,
and computer programs are increasingly used to meet
the high-throughput demands of genome sequencing
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Genome project
Genome projects are scientific endeavours that
ultimately aim to determine the complete genome
sequence of an organism (be it an animal, a plant,
a fungus, a bacterium, an archaean, a protist or a
virus). The genome sequence for any organism
requires the DNA sequences for each of the
chromosomes in an organism to be determined. For
bacteria, which usually have just one chromosome,
a genome project will aim to map the sequence of
that chromosome. Humans, with 22 pairs of
autosomes and 2 sex chromosomes, will require 24
separate chromosome sequences in order to
represent the completed genome. |
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