[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • September 12, 2000
    ``At the end of June, the Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics, the Rockville, Maryland-based company that is also working to map the human genome, announced that between them they had finished a rough map of the human genome – the collection of all our genetic material. But this simply means they have the code that makes up the genes. They do not yet know where all the genes are, or even how many genes there are. `Twenty-five percent of the genome is in finished form,' [said] Dr. Francis Collins....`Even with a perfect genome sequence in front of us, we will still be arguing about what a gene is,' Collins told the meeting. `Estimating how many genes there are will take time.'''

    Full story:
    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000911/sc/genome_dc_1.html

    So, this is the ``Post-Genomics Era,'' is it?

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