Japan and China Gear Up for 'Postgenome' Research
Dennis Normile and Yang Jianxiang
TOKYO AND BEIJING--When the human genome project was first conceived in the late 1980s, Japan hoped to play a major role. Funding, however, proved elusive, and the country contributed just 6% to the draft sequence published last February. China managed even less. But now, as the focus moves beyond human sequencing, neither country will be content with a bit part.