A decade of Genome Research celebrated
- Hillary E. Sussman and
- for the Editors of Genome Research
This extract was created in the absence of an abstract.
Ten years ago Genome Research was launched from the popular platform PCR Methods and Applications as a new journal with a shift in focus from techniques-oriented papers to the application of those techniques to relevant biological questions. This broadening of scope to larger scale genome studies in all species came at a time when genomic tools and resources were burgeoning. Genetic maps had been completed for the human and mouse genomes and physical maps of the human chromosomes were under way. The complete genome sequence of Haemophilus influenzae had just been published (1995) and it was clear that the era of genome sequencing was about to unfold. Since then, hundreds of bacterial genomes and model organisms, such as the yeast Saccaromyces cerevisiae (1996), the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (1998), and the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster (2000), as well as the human genome (2001, 2004), have been completely sequenced and many …
