This book, Evaluating the U.S. Human Genome Project,
presents a comprehensive policy appraisal of a
large-scale science program. Sponsored in the United
States by the National Institutes of Health and
Department of Energy, the Human Genome Project (HGP)
endeavored to sequence a reference human genome. A
genome is the complete set of DNA comprised of
nucleotide bases: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and
guanine, in a cells nucleus. The HGPs scientific
goal was to determine the order of these chemical
bases within the 23 pairs of chromosomes. Project
promoters justified the public investment,...