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title: The Race to Sequence the Human Genome — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/the-race-to-sequence-the-human-genome/
date: 2015-10-14
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# The Race to Sequence the Human Genome

In 1990, The Human Genome Project proposed to sequence the entire human genome over 15 years with $3 billion of public funds. Then, seven years before its scheduled completion, a private company called Celera announced that they could accomplish the same goal in just three years at a fraction of the cost. Tien Nguyen details the history of this race to sequence the human genome.