History(cont'd) 1998 NIH and Doe throw HGP into overdrive with a new goal of creating a"working draft" of the human genome by 2001, and they move the completion date for the finished draft from 2005to2003 Sulston of the Sanger Centre and Robert Waterston of Washington University and colleagues complete the genomic sequence of C elegans(100mb) -1999 NIH again moves up the completion date for the rough draft, to spring 2000 Ten companies and the Wellcome Trust launch the SNP consortium, with plans to publicly release data quarterly NIH launches a project to sequence the mouse genome, devoting $130 million over 3 years British, Japanese, and U.S. researchers complete the first sequence of a human chromosome, number 2History (cont’d) – 1998 NIH and DOE throw HGP into overdrive with a new goal of creating a "working draft" of the human genome by 2001, and they move the completion date for the finished draft from 2005 to 2003. Sulston of the Sanger Centre and Robert Waterston of Washington University and colleagues complete the genomic sequence of C. elegans (100mb). – 1999 NIH again moves up the completion date for the rough draft, to spring 2000 Ten companies and the Wellcome Trust launch the SNP consortium, with plans to publicly release data quarterly NIH launches a project to sequence the mouse genome, devoting $130 million over 3 years British, Japanese, and U.S. researchers complete the first sequence of a human chromosome, number 22