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Human Genome Project

In 1986 Charles deLisi, then Director of the health research programs of the United States Department of Energy, proposed his brainchild: a massive undertaking that came to be known as the Human Genome Project. The Project was formally initiated in 1990, and was expected to require fifteen years to complete. It was, in fact, accomplished by 2003, thanks to abounding technological advances that facilitated the work, as well as to the collaborative efforts of the international community of scientists.

Among the ambitious goals of the Human Genome Project were: to identify all human genes (originally thought to be as many as 100,000, but now believed to only be in the vicinity of 25,000), to determine all of the 3 billion DNA bases, and to make the subsequent results readily available to the general public by creating databases on the world-wide web that would foster further research in the field.

Continued studies are now being carried out in a number of countries with the aim to map out the genomes of other organisms as successfully as was done for homo sapien. Such work would provide the basis for comparative research, thus aiding in the understanding of complex biological systems.

Web Resources On Human Genome Project

Human Genome Project Information
Wikipedia: Human Genome Project

Book Resources On Human Genome Project

Genomics: The Science and Technology Behind the Human Genome Project by Charles R. Cantor, Cassandra L. Smith
The Human Genome by Carina Dennis (Editor), Richard Gallagher (Editor)

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