She likes to note that the effort to map the human genome began as a government project, and has been taken over by private efforts now that the commercial potential has become obvious.
When scientists embarked on the 13-year journey to map the human genome in 1990, they envisioned a future in which the knowledge of DNA would aid in the diagnosis, treatment and even prevention of thousands of diseases and disorders.
For instance, MIT's Eric Lander founded Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) in 1993, but that didn't stop him from being a major force in the academic effort to map the human genome.
We have a map of the human genome and new ways to produce renewable energy.
Kamionkowski compared the Planck map to the Human Genome Project in terms of its importance for cosmology.
Venter was the first to precisely map an entire human genome.
Vertex argues that the rapid-fire method, which it dubbed "chemogenomics, " is the best way to keep up with the flood of promising data resulting from the map of the human genome.
They were analyzed with advanced versions of the DNA-sequencing machines used to map DNA in the Human Genome Project.
To build on a metaphor used by Eric Green, the head of the National Human Genome Research Institute, this is like a map of a coastline drawn by an explorer who has not made landfall.
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As well as leading China's contribution to the human genome sequence and working with Danish partners on the pig genome, this week the institute announced completion of a detailed map of the rice genome.
Celera genomics began life as the swashbuckling mapper of the human genome, but it never could find the profit treasure buried in that map.
Perhaps that's part of the motivation behind a new initiative to "map" the human brain -- in a similar fashion to the unravelling of the human genome.
Case in point: On Monday, DeCode Genetics published an important genetic map--assembled by methods very different from those used to create the sequence of the human genome--that will make it much easier for scientists to hunt down new genes linked to disease.
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