Figure B1.

The Human Genome Sequencing Consortium

The twenty institutions that form the Human Genome Sequencing Consortium include: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA (http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/); Beijing Human Genome Center, Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (http://hgc.igtp.ac.cn/); Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Lita Annenberg Hazen Genome Center, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA (http://nucleus.cshl.org/genseq/lita_annenberg_hazen_genome_cent.htm); Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung mbH, Braunschweig, Germany (http://genome.gbf.de/); Genoscope, Evry, France (http://www.genoscope.fr/); Genome Therapeutics Corporation, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA (http://www.genomecorp.com/); Institute for Molecular Biotechnology, Jena, Germany (http://genome.imb-jena.de/); Joint Genome Institute, U.S. Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, USA (http://www.jgi.doe.gov/); Keio University, Tokyo, Japan (http://www-alis.tokyo.jst.go.jp/HGS/); Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany (http://seq.mpimg-berlin-dahlem.mpg.de/); RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Saitama, Japan (http://hgp.gsc.riken.go.jp/); The Sanger Centre, Hinxton, UK (http://www.sanger.ac.uk/HGP/); Stanford Genome Technology Center, Palo Alto, California, USA (http://www-sequence.stanford.edu/); Stanford Human Genome Center, Palo Alto, California, USA (http://shgc.stanford.edu/); University of Oklahoma's Advanced Center for Genome Technology, Oklahoma, USA (http://www.genome.ou.edu/); University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Texas, USA (http://www3.utsouthwestern.edu/index.htm); University of Washington Genome Center, Seattle, Washington, USA (http://www.genome.washington.edu/UWGC/); Multimegabase Sequencing Center, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, USA (http://www.systemsbiology.org/); Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/); and the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (http://genome.wustl.edu/gsc/).