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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.

… Caption: A copy of the first page of Martin Rechsteiner’s letter, which … Ph.D., from the University of California, Riverside’s Division of Biomedical Science, argued in their letter that … inefficient. They argued that the most fruitful scientific research required a more independent and focused approach …

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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.

… online database to help researchers explore the locations of genes across the immense human genome sequence. Dr. Birney … developing the Ensembl Project in 1999 in anticipation of the completion of the Human Genome Project. As genes … Roest-Crollius, Ph.D., gave a talk. He was working for a research center named Genoscope, and his research group had …