The Human Genome Project.

The Human Genome Project:

The human Genome Project was completed in 2003 and was a 13 year project coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health.

The goals of this project:

-identify all the approximately 20,000-25,000 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

& other.

Though the HGP is finished, analyses of the data will continue for many years. Diagram below is the Human genome diagram.