HGP Counterfactuals, Part 7: Wrapping Up

It's been interesting revisiting a bunch of now ancient history of the Human Genome Project with the goal of exploring other possibilities.  Istarted by considering the entire concept of alternative histories, then reviewed theconstruction of physical maps,strategies which were considered for sequencing the clones comprising the minimum spanning map of the genome and theactual sequencing technologies employed, then considered scenarios in whichno HGP is launched or the project is given a much smaller budget andforced to focus on technology development.  Tonight, I'll close this out by trying to summarize some of the ideas that came out through this process, as well as some further thoughts on the whole exercise.  Plus some references to the two megaprojects to which the HGP is often compared, the Manhattan Project and Project Apollo.Read more »
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