thumb|upright=1.5|When printed, the human genome sequence fills around 100 huge books of close print

Genome projects are scientific endeavours that ultimately aim to determine the complete genome sequence of an organism (be it an animal, a plant, a fungus, a bacterium, an archaean, a protist or a virus) and to annotate protein-coding genes and other important genome-encoded features. The genome sequence of an organism includes the collective DNA sequences of each chromosome in the organism. For a bacterium containing a single chromosome, a genome project will aim to map the sequence of that chromosome. For the human species, whose genome includes 22 pairs of autosomes and 2 sex chromosomes, a complete genome sequence will involve 46 separate chromosome sequences.

The Human Genome Project is a well known example of a genome project.

  • Domestic cow,
  • HRDetect
  • Human microbiome project
  • International Grape Genome Program
  • International HapMap Project
  • Tomato 150+ genome resequencing project
  • 100,000 Genomes Project
  • 100K Pathogen Genome Project
  • International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium IMPC
  • Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Project KOMP2
  • Giant Sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum
  • Earth BioGenome Project

See also

  • Joint Genome Institute
  • Illumina, private company involved in genome sequencing
  • Knome, private company offering genome analysis & sequencing
  • Model organism
  • National Center for Biotechnology Information

References

  • GOLD:Genomes OnLine Database
  • Genome Project Database
  • The Protein Naming Utility
  • SUPERFAMILY
  • EchinoBase An Echinoderm genomic database, (previous SpBase, a sea urchin genome database)
  • NRCPB.
  • Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA)
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute
  • Wellcome Genome Campus