8th May 2000

85 percent of human genome assembled and critical annotation added

Public Consortium Launches Final Phase of Human Genome Sequencing: 85 percent of Human Genome Sequence Assembled and Available to the Public

A collaboration between the Sanger Centre and the EBI adds critical annotation to sequence data from the Human Genome Project

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