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Science 9 February 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5507, p. 1195
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5507.1195
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A History of the Human Genome Project

Science's News staff tells the history of the quest to sequence the human genome, from Watson and Crick's discovery of the double helical structure of DNA to today's publication of the draft sequence. A graphical, interactive version of this timeline, containing links to some classic Science articles and news coverage from the early genomics era, is also available on Science's Functional Genomics Web site.

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