摘要：In 1999, nine years after the National Institutes of Health’s(“NIH”) National Center for Human Genome Research had publishedits first joint research plan, the project to sequence the human genomewas operating at full force.1 The entire genome of a free-living organism,Haemophilus influenzae, had already been sequenced,2 and thefirst full human chromosome sequence would be published that sameyear.3 The joint announcement by President Bill Clinton and UnitedKingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair of the so-called rough draft humangenome would be made the following year.
