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About Genomics
An interactive timeline listing key moments from the history of the project.
… Completed in April 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the ability to read nature's complete …  1984-86 Early meetings assess the feasibility of a Human Genome Project. More + 1984-86 In December 1984, the U.S. … Sinsheimer hold " The Santa Cruz Workshop " on human genome sequencing. In March 1986, the DOE Office of Health …
The Genomics Landscape
In April 6, 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., talks about how NHGRI will hold a symposium on National DNA Day, April 25, highlighting relevant and interesting topics in genomics and concluding with the annual Louise M. Slaughter National DNA Day Lecture.
… the 20th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project, and the 20 th anniversary of National DNA … partners announced the completion of the Human Genome Project and the successful generation of a highly … and publicly available reference sequence of the human genome. The ordered ~3 billion letters of DNA sequence …
The Genomics Landscape
In the August 6, 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green talks about NHGRI's completion of the third phase of the ENCODE Project and how it reveals the most extensive catalog to date of candidate functional elements that may regulate the genes in the human and mouse genomes.
… genomics: the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Human Genome Project in October 2020. To amplify that drumbeat, the … performed nearly 6,000 experiments – 4,834 for the human genome and 1,158 for the mouse genome – ENCODE was able to develop an updated and …
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green focuses on recent efforts to make the human genome reference sequence useful to basic and clinical researchers and how increasing the representation of human genomic variation will remain key components of NHGRI’s Human Genome Reference Program.
… The Genome: Unlocking Life's Code  exhibition is currently …  Research studies that generate genome-sequence data rely on a reference sequence for making … the more meaningful the comparative results. The human genome reference sequence is thus an essential resource for …
About Genomics
NHGRI considers the ethical, legal and social aspect of genomics research in our work, including these key policy issues
The Genomics Landscape
In the March 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green spotlights the Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) Program evaluation.
… findings of the CEGS Program evaluation can be found on genome.gov , but several high-level summary features deserve … on April 25 to commemorate the completion of the Human Genome Project and the discovery of DNA's double-helix … a DNA Day event is encouraged to register the event on genome.gov. There, you can also download materials from a …
The Genomics Landscape
In the August 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green announces the recent launch of the NHGRI Genomic Innovator Award.
… The Genome: Unlocking Life's Code  exhibition is currently … critical for the success of efforts such as the Human Genome Project , 1000 Genomes , ENCyclopedia Of DNA … Home Reference was created at the end of the Human Genome Project (HGP) in response to a growing public interest …
About Genomics
The Human Genome Project was an inward voyage of discovery led by an international team of researchers looking to sequence and map all the genes of our species.
… The Human Genome Project (HGP) is one of the greatest scientific feats … to comprehensively study all of the DNA (known as a genome) of a select set of organisms. Launched in October 1990 and completed in April 2003, the Human Genome Project’s signature accomplishment – generating the …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
We are learning how our genomes serve as blueprints for life.
… Did you know that just knowing the genome sequence of an organism only reveals part of the story … important to determine how that organism interprets its genome and uses that information to build and operate itself accordingly? Less than 2 percent of the human genome corresponds to "genes," but we know other parts are …
Genomics and Medicine
Starting in 2019, the American Journal of Human Genetics has published an annual feature identifying ten key advances in applying genomic information to clinical care that were reported in the previous 12 months of published literature. The Genomic Medicine Working Group has authored these reviews, based on its broader effort to identify notable accomplishments in genomic medicine on a monthly basis. From this larger set of published accomplishments, the working group has continued to select ten papers annually to be highlighted as the most significant.
… tool for all ancestries 8. Broader access to clinical genome sequencing benefits diverse individuals with rare … for children with suspected cancer from routine whole-genome sequencing 10. Clinical signatures of genetic … helps to prioritize critically ill newborns for whole-genome sequencing Population genomic screening for common …