Abstract :
In June 2000, a press conference was held in the White House to announce an extraordinary feat: the completion of a draft of the human genome. For the first time, researchers had read all 3 billion of the chemical "letters" that make up a human DNA molecule, which would allow geneticists to investigate how that chemical sequence codes for a human being. In his remarks, President Bill Clinton recalled the moment nearly 50 years prior when Francis Crick and James Watson first discovered the double-helix structure of DNA. "How far we have come since that day," Clinton said.
Keywords :
DNA; genomics; molecular biophysics; molecular configurations; DNA data deluge; DNA double-helix structure; Francis Crick; James Watson; President Bill Clinton; White House; chemical letters; chemical sequence codes; geneticists; human DNA molecule; human genome; Bioinformatics; DNA; Genomics; Molecular biophysics;
