Billion Base Pair Celebration

Billion Base Pair Celebration

National Academy of Sciences

November 23, 1999

The Billion Base Pair Celebration noted the completion and deposition into GenBank of one billion base pairs of human genome DNA sequence. The celebration honored hundreds of scientists across the country and around the world whose commitment and ingenuity have been vital to reaching this milestone in the Human Genome Project.

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Program

Bruce Alberts President National Academy of Sciences Welcome and Reflections on the Human Genome Project Neal Lane Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy Congratulations Francis Collins Director National Human Genome Research Institute Where We've Been and Where We're Going Donna Shalala Secretary Department of Health and Human Services Remarks   Awards to: Baylor College of Medicine Washington University Whitehead Institute NHGRI HGP Managers NCBI GenBank Staff Bill Richardson Secretary Department of Energy Remarks   Awards to: Joint Genome Institute DOE HGP Managers Sanger Centre Award Video Tom Harkin United States Senator Robert Krulwich ABC TV Correspondent Genomics for the Public: Making Sense of it All Francis Collins Closing Remarks