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In 1986 the Department of Energy (DOE) announced its Human Genome Initiative. The dawn of the International Human Genome has broken.

The Human Genome Project (HGP), formally launched in the USA in 1990, is an international effort to discover all human genes and make the genomic information accessible for the life sciences community. The completion of the draft sequence of the human genome, which covers 94% of the genome, was announced in June, 2000.

The Human Genome Sequencing Consortium includes:

• Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center (Houston, USA)
• DOE Joint Genome Institute (Walnut Creek, USA)
• Genome Therapeutics Corporation (Waltham, USA)
• Genoscope (Evry, France)
• Gesellschaft fuer Biotechnologische Forschung mbH (Braunschweig, Germany)
• Human Genome Center (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics, Beijing, China)
• Institute for Molecular Biotechnology (Jena, Germany)
• Keio University (Tokyo, Japan)
• Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (Berlin, Germany)
• RIKEN Genomic Sciences Centre (Saitama, Japan)
• Stanford DNA Sequencing and Technology Development Centre (Palo Alto, USA)
• The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Hinxton, UK)
• University of Washington Genome Centre (Seattle, USA)
• University of Washington Multimegabase Sequencing Centre (Seattle, USA)
• Washington University School of Medicine Genome Sequencing Center (St. Louis, USA)
• Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research (Cambridge, USA)

Human Genome Resources:

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Human Genome Resources

Human Genome Project Information

National Human Genome Projects:

• German Human Genome Project
• Russian National Human Genome Program