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Policies and Guidance

FY2024 NHGRI Funding Policy

For FY2024, NHGRI’s extramural program will be operating under the NHGRI 2020 Strategic Vision.

… Dissemination and implementation of research findings and technology to the broader biomedical and behavioral … who are applying for their first competitive renewal. More information can be found in NHGRI’s resources on Funding for … R25, U13 NHGRI is committed to disseminating the latest information on the development of resources, approaches, …

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The Human Genome Project is simply a bad idea

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.

… endless lines of letters with “no interesting biological information.” According to the Coleman, the project “wouldn’t … and that are being actively investigated today. For more information on what we now refer to as “non-coding DNA,” … (as outlined in the Bermuda Principles ) of the genomic information generated. This kind of policy was made possible …

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Gene Sweepstakes (GeneSweep)

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.

… website thus became a key place to get the most up-to-date information about the collection of identified human genomes. …