ABSTRACT
The human genome project is a multinational project aimed at obtaining a detailed map and a complete DNA sequence of the human genome. It will have many scientific, medical, economic, ethical, legal and social implications. There have been numerous scientists who have contributed to our knowledge, and it will also be fitting that the completion of this project will require the collaboration of many international scientists. Biomedical research is performed and funded in many countries. In USA, James Watson's powerful advocacy of the project has obtained funding, but the style in which it has been done has resulted in some criticism. Different researchers use different cloning vectors for gene analysis, so the exchange of DNA pieces in these different vectors, or DNA clones, is not possible. Chemical Abstracts obtains data worldwide, but restricts full availability to certain US computers. The genome project will be a huge resource of information for medicine in the next century.
