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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.

… that an incredibly small percentage of the genome, only 2%, actually codes for proteins. After the Human Genome … than sequencing the entire genome. This was the type of approach that had led to researchers identifying …

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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.

… that had been sequenced as well. And the two numbers were 2.58 and 3.18, if I remember well. So whether you divide …