WebWise: Navigating the Human Genome Project: Table 1.

WebWise: navigating the Human Genome Project.

The Human Genome Project has increased the rate of DNA sequence accumulation to the point where information management has become a formidable task. The central repositories for this avalanche of data, GenBank, EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), and DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan), continue to accumulate DNA sequences at an unprecedented rate. For example, the total number of nucleotid...

WebWise: guide to the Stanford Human Genome Center and the Whitehead/MIT Genome Center web sites.

This installment of the WebWise series reviews two web sites: (1) the Stanford Human Genome Center (SHGC; http://www-shgc.stanford.edu/), and (2) the Whitehead/MIT Genome Center (W/MIT; http://www-genome.wi.mit. edu/). Although the overall organization and style of these two web sites are quite different, the centers share an important feature. Both sites make available a large amount of physic...

The Human Genome Project.

Dear readers, The last few decades have seen a number of exciting developments in genetics. First, Watson and Crick broke the genetic code; since then, tech-nologic and methodologic breakthroughs have permitted the study and direct manipulation of our DNA. Now there is an international ground swell to map and sequence the human genome. The Bush administration had originally requested $128 milli...

The Human Genome Project.

The Human Genome Project

genetic mapping; DNA; applied research; molecular genetics T Human Genome Project is an international research project whose primary mission is to decipher the chemical sequence of the complete human genetic material (i.e., the entire genome), identify all 50,000 to 100,000 genes contained within the genome, and provide research tools to analyze all this genetic information. This ambitious proj...