On 26 June 2000 US President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, with Francis Collins of the public Human Genome Project and Craig Venter of the private company Celera, announced a working draft of the sequence of the 3 billion letters of the human genome. The public project had started in 1990. A competition between the two sparked a race to finish and to keep the data public. The finished sequence, announced in April 2003, found only about 20,000 genes, far fewer than the 100,000 expected, and a complete, gap-free genome was published in 2022.
Before and after
- from 9 March 2000 to 26 September 2003Launch of Nupedia
- 10 March 2000Dot-com bubble
- 19 April 2000Creation of Windows Mobile
- 11 May 2000Construction of Tate Modern
- 26 June 2000The first draft of the human genome is announced
- July 2000Discovery of livermorium
- 1 July 2000Construction of Øresund Bridge
- 7 July 2000Founding of East African Community
- 8 July 2000Publication of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
More in Science & technology
- 1945Discovery of promethium
- 1950Discovery of californium
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 29 August 1982Discovery of meitnerium
- June 2002Discovery of oganesson
The era
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