History(cont'd) 1992 Watson resigns as head of NCHGR Venter leaves NIH to set up The Institute for Genomic Research(TIGR) William Haseltine heads its sister company, Human Genome Sciences to commercialize TIGR products Britain's Wellcome Trust enters the HGP with $95 million Mel Simon of Caltech and colleagues develop BACs for cloning U.S. and French teams complete the first physical maps of chromosomes David Page of the Whitehead Institute and colleagues map the chromosome, Daniel Cohen of the Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain(CEPH and Genethon and colleagues map chromosome 21 U.S. and French teams complete genetic maps of mouse and human; mouse average marker spacing 4.3 CM, Eric Lander and colleagues at Whitehead, human, average marker spacing 5 cM, Jean Weissenbach and colleagues at CEPHHistory (cont’d) – 1992 Watson resigns as head of NCHGR Venter leaves NIH to set up The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), William Haseltine heads its sister company, Human Genome Sciences, to commercialize TIGR products. Britain's Wellcome Trust enters the HGP with $95 million Mel Simon of Caltech and colleagues develop BACs for cloning U.S. and French teams complete the first physical maps of chromosomes: David Page of the Whitehead Institute and colleagues map the Y chromosome; Daniel Cohen of the Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH) and Généthon and colleagues map chromosome 21 U.S. and French teams complete genetic maps of mouse and human: mouse, average marker spacing 4.3 cM , Eric Lander and colleagues at Whitehead; human, average marker spacing 5 cM, Jean Weissenbach and colleagues at CEPH