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unusual facts about Genome Project


Ruben Kuzniecky

In 2007, Dr. Kuzniecky was co-awarded a major grant from the National Institutes of Health to organize the Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project.


UCSC Genome Browser

Initially built and still managed by Jim Kent, then a graduate student, and David Haussler, professor of Computer Science (now Biomolecular Engineering) at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2000, the UCSC Genome Browser began as a resource for the distribution of the initial fruits of the Human Genome Project.


see also

Alex Titomirov

InforMax Inc. was also assisting The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI, NIH) with various programs including but not limited to the Human Genome Project, GenBank, Entrez, PubMed, and MedLine.

Rudolph E. Tanzi

As the leader of the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Alzheimer’s Genome Project, Dr. Tanzi has carried out multiple genome wide association studies of thousands of Alzheimer’s families leading to the identification of novel AD candidate genes, including CD33 and the first two rare mutations causing late-onset AD in the ADAM10 gene.

Technical Presentation

In his book, Presentations for Dummies, Malcolm Kushner’s chapter on “Technical and Financial Presentations” includes comments by Dr. David Haussler, the mastermind of the human genome project and an expert on technical presentations.