The Human Genome Project (HGP) is an international 13-year effort formally begun in October 1990. Project goals are to discover all the approximate 100,000 human genes (the human genome) and make them accessible for further biological study and to determine the complete sequence of the 3 billion DNA subunits (bases). As part of the HGP, parallel studies are being carried out on selected model organisms such as the bacterium E. coli to help develop the technology and interpret human gene function.
The Department of Energy's Human Genome Program and the National Institutes of Health's National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) together make up the U.S. Human Genome Project. The Department of Energy's Human Genome Program is directed by Ari Patrinos, head of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research. Francis Collins directs the National Institutes of Health National Human Genome Research Institute.
Many laboratories around the United States receive funding from either the Department of Energy (DOE) or the National Institutes of Health (NIH), or both, for Human Genome Project research.
Other researchers at numerous colleges, universities, and laboratories throughout the United States also receive DOE and NIH funding for human genome research. At any given time, the DOE Human Genome Program funds about 200 separate principal investigators. In addition, many private companies are conducting genome research.
Primary Human Genome Project Sequencing Sites
(often referred to as the G5)
 | DOE
Joint Genome Institute integrates three genome centers at Department of
Energy national laboratories.
| Baylor
College of Medicine
| Sanger
Center
| Washington
University Genome Sequencing Center
| Whitehead
Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research | |
Other Contributors to Genome Research
Note: This list is not comprehensive. Numerous institutions worldwide are engaging in genetics and genomics research.
| Albert
Einstein College of Medicine and Yale University Chromosome 12
| Australian
Genome Research Facility
| Chromosome
21 Consortium
| Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory Chromosome 18
| Columbia
University Chromosome 13
| Computational
Biosciences at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
|
Genome
Database
| Genome
Therapeutics Corporation Genome Sequencing Center
| Merck
Genome Research Institute
| National
Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
| Stanford
Human Genome Center
| The
Institute for Genomic Research
| University
of California at Berkeley Drosophila Genome Center
| University
of Iowa, et. al. Cooperative Human Linkage Center
| University
of Michigan DNA Sequencing Core
| University
of Oklahoma Advanced Center for Genome Technology
| University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,
Department of Molecular Genetics
| University
of Texas, San Antonio Chromosome 3 Research
| University
of Utah
| University
of Washington Genome Center
| University
of Washington Multimegabase Sequencing Center
| University
of Wisconsin E. coli Genome Center
| |
For more on DOE-funded genomics research, visit the latest Contractor-Grantee Workshop proceedings.
For more on NIH-funded genomics reserach, click here.
For more on publicly traded genomics companies, see Yahoo Genomics Listing.
