Human Genome Project Centres
The institutions that form the Human Genome Sequencing Consortium include:
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The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute,
The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom -
Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research,
Cambridge, MA, USA -
Washington University School of Medicine Genome Sequencing Center,
St. Louis, MO, USA -
Joint Genome Institute, U.S. Department of Energy,
Walnut Creek, CA, USA -
Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center,
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Houston, TX, USA -
RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center,
Yokohama-city, Japan -
Genoscope and CNRS,
UMR-8030, Evry Cedex, France -
Genome Therapeutics Corporation (GTC) Sequencing Center,
Genome Therapeutics Corporation, Waltham, MA, USA -
Department of Genome Analysis,
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Jena, Germany -
Beijing Genomics Institute/Human Genome Center,
Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China -
Multimegabase Sequencing Center,
The Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA -
Stanford Genome Technology Center,
Stanford, CA, USA -
Stanford Human Genome Center and Department of Genetics,
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA -
University of Washington Genome Center,
Seattle, WA, USA -
Department of Molecular Biology,
Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan -
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas,
Dallas, TX, USA* -
University of Oklahoma's Advanced Center for Genome Technology,
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA -
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics,
Berlin, Germany -
Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory,
Lita Annenberg Hazen Genome Center, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA -
Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung mbH (GBF) - German Research Centre
for Biotechnology,
Braunschweig, Germany
* Sequencing centre is no longer in operation.
Other Institutes
In addition, three institutions played a key role in providing computational support and analysis for the Human Genome Project:
- The National Center for Biotechnology Information at NIH, USA
- The European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK
- University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
The assembly of the genome sequence across chromosomes was also assisted by scientists at Neomorphic, Inc.
