Human Genome Project: Twenty-five years of big biology

Eric D Green; James D Watson; Francis S Collins

doi:10.1038/526029a

Human Genome Project: Twenty-five years of big biology

Nature. 2015 Oct 1;526(7571):29-31. doi: 10.1038/526029a.

Authors

Eric D Green¹, James D Watson², Francis S Collins³

Affiliations

¹ US National Human Genome Research Institute at the US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
² Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA, and former director of the US National Center for Human Genome Research.
³ US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and former director of the US National Human Genome Research Institute.

PMID: 26432225
PMCID: PMC5101944
DOI: 10.1038/526029a

Abstract

The Human Genome Project, which launched a quarter of a century ago this week, still holds lessons for the consortium-based science it ushered in, say Eric D. Green, James D. Watson and Francis S. Collins.

Publication types

Historical Article

MeSH terms

Cooperative Behavior
Datasets as Topic / history
Genome, Human / genetics
History, 20th Century
Human Genome Project / history*
Human Genome Project / organization & administration
Humans
Information Dissemination / history
Microbiota / genetics
National Human Genome Research Institute (U.S.) / history
Neoplasms / genetics
Research Personnel / history
Research Personnel / organization & administration
United States