The Genomics Era
Further information: genomics- 1972: Walter Fiers and his team at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the University of Ghent (Ghent, Belgium) were the first to determine the sequence of a gene: the gene for bacteriophage MS2 coat protein.
- 1976: Walter Fiers and his team determine the complete nucleotide-sequence of bacteriophage MS2-RNA
- 1977: DNA is sequenced for the first time by Fred Sanger, Walter Gilbert, and Allan Maxam working independently. Sanger's lab sequence the entire genome of bacteriophage Φ-X174.
- 1983: Kary Banks Mullis discovers the polymerase chain reaction enabling the easy amplification of DNA
- 1989: The human gene that encodes the CFTR protein was sequenced by Francis Collins and Lap-Chee Tsui. Defects in this gene cause cystic fibrosis.
- 1995: The genome of Haemophilus influenzae is the first genome of a free living organism to be sequenced
- 1996: Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the first eukaryote genome sequence to be released
- 1998: The first genome sequence for a multicellular eukaryote, Caenorhabditis elegans, is released
- 2001: First draft sequences of the human genome are released simultaneously by the Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics.
- 2003 (14 April): Successful completion of Human Genome Project with 99% of the genome sequenced to a 99.99% accuracy
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