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Richard M. Myers
Richard M. Myers (born March 24, 1954) is an American geneticist and biochemist known for his work on Human Genome Project, the Human Genome Project (HGP). National Human Genome Research Institute, The National Human Genome Research Institute says the HGP “[gave] the world a resource of detailed information about the structure, organization and function of the complete set of human genes.” Myers' genome center, in collaboration with the Joint Genome Institute, contributed more than 10 percent of the data in the project. As of July 1, 2022, Myers is Chief Scientific Officer and President Emeritus of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, a non-profit research institute. Before that, Myers was President and Science Director of the Institute. He was previously the chair of the department of genetics at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Human Genome Center. His research focuses on the human genome with the goal of understanding how allelic variation and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying, mapping and sequencing all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint. It started in 1990 and was completed in 2003. It remains the world's largest collaborative biological project. Planning started after the idea was picked up in 1984 by the US government, the project formally launched in 1990, and was declared essentially complete on April 14, 2003, but included only about 85% of the genome. Level "complete genome" was achieved in May 2021, with a remaining only 0.3% bases covered by potential issues. The final gapless assembly was finished in January 2022. Funding came from the United States government through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as numerous other groups from around the world. A parallel project was conducted outside the government by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
