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1999 Release: Billion Base Pair Celebration

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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

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