Department of Energy and National Institute of Health coordinated on the project of human genome sequencing. It was called Human Genome Project (HGP). Welcome Trust (UK) was the major partner of this project. Some of the other countries which joined in this project were Germany, France Japan, China .
Human genome project was a huge project which required a lot of financial and intellectual inputs. Advanced equipment, cutting edge technology in genetic engineering, tools of bioinformatics and efforts of several intelligent scientists made this attempt a success. To get a rough estimation of the cost we can consider the cost of sequencing a single base pair, which is 3 dollars approximately. The human genome consists of 3 x 109 bases. There for the approximate cost sequencing the whole human genome would have been 9000,000,000 dollars.
The main objectives of human genome project were :-
1. To determine the number of all base pairs in human genome and to sequence them
2. To identify the functions of all genes present in human genome
3. To identify genes responsible for genetic disorders
4. To establish the susceptibility or resistance to various