THE GENOME PROJECT: ITS IMPACTS AND IMPLICATIONS

The following sections are included:

• Looking Back In The Future

• Lewis-Clark Dé Jàvu

• The Human Genome Tour

• Historical Perspective — The Timeline Of The Human Genome Project

  • Pre-genomic Sequencing Cottage Industry

  • Scaling up a la Big Science — A Biological Moonshot, A Biological Particle Smasher

  • Enters the Black Knight

  • Divide-and-Conquer Strategy

  • Shotgun Strategy

  • The Traveling Salesman Is a Chinese Postman

  • The Race to the Finishing Line — Bigger is Better

  • Complementary Strategies — Ally or Foe

  • From Genome Marathon to Sprint to the Finishing Line

  • The Gutenberg Press of the Human Genome Project

• A Small Step For Genome, A Giant Step For Humankind

  • Impacts and Implications — Deciphering the Rosetta Tablet

    • Genetic Engineering

    • Humpty Dumpty

    • Single Nucleotide Polymorphism

    • Patentability of Biocommons

    • Ethical, Social, and Legal Issues

• What Is In Store?

  • Gaps Filling

  • Gene Finding

  • Other Genomes

  • Gene Function

  • Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms

  • The Eclectic Bioinformatics

  • An Array of Possibilities — New Genomic Technologies

• The Next Fifty Years

• The Test Of Time