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The Human Genome Project


The first large-scale sequencing project was the Human Genome Project (HGP), started by the US Department of Energy and involving contributions from the US, China, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom.

The genome was actually sequenced twice by two different groups (the publicly funded group headed first by Jim Watson and later by Francis Collins, and Craig Venter's company Celera) and the completion announced simultaneously.

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*Published separately: International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium (2001) and Venter et al., 2001