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Worm genome sequencing influenced Human Genome Project's data sharing principles

Bethesda, Md., Wed., March. 6, 2013 - Robert Waterston, M.D., Ph.D., and Sir John Sulston, Ph.D., genomic researchers who led the sequencing of the C. elegans genome back in the 1990s, recently described this ground-breaking project and their involvement in the HGP. Their February 14 presentation on the National Institutes of Health campus was the first of three paired lectures organized by NHGRI to celebrate the 10th anniversary of completing the HGP. (more)

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NHGRI Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Human Genome Project Completion

To mark the 10-year anniversary of the Human Genome Project's (HGP) completion and reflect on the HGP's revolutionary influence on biomedicine, the National Human Genome Research Institute, which spearheaded the HGP, plans a series of stimulating seminars, a symposium, and an interactive exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. (more)

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NHGRI collaborates with Smithsonian to produce new genome exhibit

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of researchers producing the first complete human genome sequence - the genetic blueprint of the human body - the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., will open a high-tech, high-intensity exhibition in 2013. (more)
Watch a video of the announcement
 

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NHGRI Budget

• NHGRI Director's Statement to House on the FY 2013 Budget Request
• NHGRI FY 2013 Justification of Estimates for Congressional Appropriations Committee (HTML)

The NHGRI Strategic Plan

• Charting a course for genomic medicine from base pairs to bedside
  Nature, February 9, 2011

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Last Updated: March 6, 2013

 

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