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New Five-Year Plan in Process as HGP Passes MidpointMidlife traditionally presents an opportunity for making evaluations, as progress toward milestones is measured and courses are altered. So, too, with the Human Genome Project (HGP), the massive 15-year biological undertaking begun in 1990 to obtain the sequence of all 3 billion bases in human DNA. Rapid progress and technology developments during the first half of the project have affirmed researchers optimism that the task can be completed on time and within budget. A new set of U.S. goals for the next 5 years will be presented to Congress this fall. The new plan was developed during a series of individual and joint DOE-NIH workshops on various aspects of the project. The DOE planning committee, chaired by Raymond Gesteland (University of Utah), met May 28-29 with its NIH counterpart and a broad group of 120 researchers for a final evaluation of the plan. At that meeting, the consensus was that (1) the U.S. HGP should stick with its original goal of achieving full and highly accurate human sequence and (2) improving sequencing capacity is paramount. Priorities for the next 5 years include the following:
Human Genome Project Value International efforts have played a critical role in the project's success, with at least 18 countries now supporting programs for analyzing the genomes of a variety of organisms ranging from microbes to economically important plants and animals to humans. The electronic form of the newsletter may be cited in the following
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