International Human Genome Sequencing
Consortium Announces “Working
Draft” of Human Genome - - -
June 26, 2000.
The
sixteen institutions that form the Human Genome Sequencing Consortium include:
1. Baylor College of
Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
2. Beijing Human Genome Center,
Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
3. Gesellschaft
fur Biotechnologische Forschung mbH, Braunschweig, Germany
4. Genoscope, Evry,
France
5. Genome Therapeutics
Corporation, Waltham, MA, USA
6. Institute
for Molecular Biotechnology, Jena, Germany
7. Joint Genome
Institute, U.S. Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
8. Keio
University, Tokyo, Japan
9. Max
Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
10. RIKEN
Genomic Sciences Center, Saitama, Japan
11. The Sanger Centre,
Hinxton, U.K.
12. Stanford DNA
Sequencing and Technology Development Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA
13. University of
Washington Genome Center, Seattle, WA, USA
14. University of
Washington Multimegabase Sequencing Center, Seattle, WA, USA
15. Whitehead
Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
16. Washington
University Genome Sequencing Center, St. Louis, MO, USA
In
addition, two institutions played a key role in providing computational
support and analysis for the Human Genome Project over the
course of the past eighteen months. These include:
The
National Center for Biotechnology Information at NIH
The
European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK
Scientists
at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Neomorphic, Inc. also
assisted the assembly of the genome sequence across
chromosomes,