UCSC researchers produce human genome CD for National Millennium Time Capsule
Safely housed inside the National
Millennium Time Capsule for the next 100 years, alongside Ray Charles's sunglasses
and a piece of the Berlin Wall, is a CD-ROM disk produced by UC Santa Cruz researchers
that contains the DNA sequence of the human genome. One of the crowning achievements
of 20th-century science, the human genome sequence represents all of the genetic
instructions for a human being. UCSC researchers played a key role in this achievement,
creating a powerful new computer program to assemble fragmented data from the major
sequencing labs into a coherent sequence. (More)
