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<p><font size="5">The "Human Genome Project" (HGP)</font><br />
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<font size="4">It did contributed much to biology. However, the amount of money used and the way it was done (process) were not the best example of performing scientific projects.<br />
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1. Was it really a 'human' project? <br />
No, it was not for the whole humanity. How much consideration was put in for all ethnic groups? It is more a "Caucasian Genome <strong>Sequencing</strong> Project".<br />
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2. Was it scientific?<br />
No, it was more commercially driven with commerical promises that eventually helped the biological stock market disaster and giving bad names to biological ventures.<br />
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3. Was it so meaningful?<br />
If $3 USD was used not for 'sequencing' but for actually understanding the human genomes, it would have been much more meaningful.<br />
Genome Sequencing Project is not necessarily 'genomics'. It is a small part of it.</font> <br />
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<font size="4">4. Was it sound in principle?<br />
It seems it was full of hype and big egos involving an old technology accompanied by huge amount of money by fairly new comers of the field.<br />
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5. Is it useful?<br />
Yes. As it is free (instead owned by a company).<br />
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</font></p>
<br />
<font size="4">It did contributed much to biology. However, the amount of money used and the way it was done (process) were not the best example of performing scientific projects.<br />
<br />
1. Was it really a 'human' project? <br />
No, it was not for the whole humanity. How much consideration was put in for all ethnic groups? It is more a "Caucasian Genome <strong>Sequencing</strong> Project".<br />
<br />
2. Was it scientific?<br />
No, it was more commercially driven with commerical promises that eventually helped the biological stock market disaster and giving bad names to biological ventures.<br />
<br />
3. Was it so meaningful?<br />
If $3 USD was used not for 'sequencing' but for actually understanding the human genomes, it would have been much more meaningful.<br />
Genome Sequencing Project is not necessarily 'genomics'. It is a small part of it.</font> <br />
<br />
<font size="4">4. Was it sound in principle?<br />
It seems it was full of hype and big egos involving an old technology accompanied by huge amount of money by fairly new comers of the field.<br />
<br />
5. Is it useful?<br />
Yes. As it is free (instead owned by a company).<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
</font></p>
