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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 … DNA,” please visit our Talking Glossary of Genomic and Genetic Terms . Dr. Stavnezer recently commented to us … improved our understanding of our genomes and genetic diseases in all of its complexity. … The Human Genome …

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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.

… Before there was GeneSweep, there was the Ensembl Project, an 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 …