Human Genome Project: Twenty-five years of big biology

  • Nature. 2015 Oct 1;526(7571):29-31. doi: 10.1038/526029a.
Eric D Green  1 ,  James D Watson  2 ,  Francis S Collins  3
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 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.