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The $3 billion project was founded in 1990 by the United States Department of Energy and the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and was expected to take 15 years. Due to widespread international cooperation and advances in the field of genomics (especially in sequence analysis), as well as huge advances in computing technology, a rough draft of the genome was finished in 2000 (announced jointly by US president Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on June 26, 2000), two years earlier than planned.
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Another reason for the accelerated work was the commercially financed HGP at Celera Genomics, which used a new method called shotgun sequencing, and also that Celera Genomics planned to patent all genes found, unlike the gene sequences found by the original publicly-funded HGP, which are in line with the so called Bermuda Statement (Feb 1996) made freely available to the public, 24 hours a day. This sort of competition proved to be very good for the Project.
Although the working draft was announced in June 2000, it was not until February 2001 that Celera and the HGP scientists published actual details of their drafts. Special issues of Nature (which published the publicly-funded project's scientific paper) and Science (which published Celera's paper) contained descriptions of the methods used to produce the draft sequence, as well as analysis of said sequence. These drafts are hoped to provide a 'scaffold' of about 90% of the genome upon which gaps can be closed.
Each draft sequence has been checked at least four to five times to increase 'depth of coverage' or accuracy. Approximately 47% of the draft were high-quality sequences - the final version will have been checked eight to nine times giving an error rate of just 1 in 10,000 bases.
The human genome project is one of a number of international genome projects in biology, each aimed at sequencing the DNA of a specific organism. While the human DNA sequence offers the most tangible benefits, important developments in biology and medicine are predicted as a result of the sequencing of model organisms including mice, fruitflies, zebrafish, yeast, nematodes and many microbial organisms and parasites.
In October 2004, researchers of the HGP announced a new estimate of 20,000 to 25,000 genes in the human genome. Previously 30,000 to 40,000 had been predicted, while estimates at the start of the project reached up to as high as 100,000.
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