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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.

… online database to help researchers explore the locations of genes across the immense human genome sequence. Dr. Birney and his colleagues began … And you are sequencing the human genome at this great cost but you don’t even know what the number of genes is in …

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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 circulated and spurred the anti-Human Genome Project letter campaign. The first line of the letter … argument made by everyone was the objection to the overall cost of the project. At the time, the projected cost was $3 …

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Virtual Exhibits

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.

… The NHGRI History of Genomics Program produced this series of virtual exhibits using archival materials from our own … to tell interesting and important stories from the Human Genome Project and the larger history of genomics. … View the …