Research Sites

Listed below are sequencing centers that participated in the Human Genome Project. The five primary centers are listed first. Those which were members of the International Human Sequencing Consortium are denoted by an asterisk (*). Some of the centers listed no longer exist or have been subsumed by other entities.

Primary Human Genome Project Sequencing Sites

• U.S. DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA*
• Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Houston, Texas, USA*
• The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom*
• Washington University School of Medicine Genome Sequencing Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA*
• Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA*

Additional Contributors to HGP Research

• Australian Genome Research Facility
• Beijing Genomics Institute/Human Genome Center, Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China*
• Chromosome 21 Consortium
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Lita Annenberg Hazen Genome Center, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA*
• Chromosome 13 – Sanger Centre, UK
• Computational Biology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
• European Bioinformatics Institute
• Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH
• Généthon
• Genome Database
• Genoscope and CNRS UMG-8030, Evry, France*
• German Human Genome Project
• Gesellschaft fur Biotechnologische Forschung mbH, Braunschweig, Germany*
• GTC Sequencing Center, Genome Therapeutics Corporation, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA*
• Department of Genome Analysis, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Jena, Germany*
• The Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, USA*
• Japan Science and Technology Corporation Sequencing Projects
• Department of Molecular Biology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan*
• Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany*
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
• NIH Cooperative Human Linkage Center
• RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Saitama, Japan*
• Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford, California, USA*
• Stanford Human Genome Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA*
• The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, USA
• University of California at Berkeley Drosophila Genome Center
• University of Oklahoma Advanced Center for Genome Technology*
• University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Molecular Genetics
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA*
• University of Tokyo Human Genome Center
• University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics
• University of Washington Genome Center, Seattle, Washington, USA*
• University of Wisconsin E. coli Genome Center
• Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

* Member of the International Human Sequencing Consortium