A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing

Ella Watkins-Dulaney for Asimov Press.When the Human Genome Project (HGP) released its initial draft sequence in 2001, President Bill Clinton hailed it as “the most wondrous map ever produced by mankind.” After more than ten years of work, an estimated $3 billion in research costs, and a “genome war” with Craig Venter’s private company, Celera Genomics, the project had produced a nearly complete sequence of a human genome.1UK Prime Minister Tony Blair predicted that this map would yield “a revol...