Rival Genome Sequencers Celebrate a Milestone Together

摘要

With pomp and ceremony, including a trumpet flourish, President Clinton strode into the East Room of the White House on 26 June to announce that molecular biologists have generated "the most wondrous map ever produced by humankind"—a nearly complete readout of the 3.1 or so billion nucleotides in the human genome. Two scientific groups, one private and the other public, have reached a turning point in this work, the president said, and he wanted to celebrate an "epic-making triumph of science and reason."