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Data sharing has been a central tenet of the field of genomics since the Human Genome Project.
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture presented an insightful conversation about advancements in genetic research and its implications for ​understanding race.
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NHGRI is hosting a pre-application webinar on September 9, 2020 for the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) program funding opportunity announcements (FOAs).
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NHGRI is hosting a pre-application webinar on September 3, 2020 for the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) program funding opportunity announcements (FOAs).
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Future Webinar Series
Virtual Exhibit
The Human Genome Project changed traditional understandings of how and why scientific research is conducted. It was, however, not without its detractors. Early in 1990, there was an effort to stop funding for the nascent Human Genome Project, in the form of a letter writing campaign.
Historical Collections
The NHGRI History of Genomics Program produced this series of virtual exhibits using archival materials from our own special collections to tell interesting and important stories from the Human Genome Project and the larger history of genomics.
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The Gene Sweepstakes — or GeneSweep as it became popularly known — was a three-year-long, sweepstakes-style contest organized by British bioinformatician Ewan Birney, Ph.D., of the European Bioinformatics Institute. Scientists participated in the contest by betting on the total number of protein-coding genes that would be identified in the human genome sequence generated by the Human Genome Project.