

I concentrate on what novel information emerges from the completed sequence rather than on the detail of what we learned from The scale of the human DNA sequence must mean that no reviewer can capture all of the information it contains and therefore Of Genome Research to take stock of where we are and where we might be in another decade in our understanding of the human genome.

It is therefore timely to use this 10th anniversary

Public imagination, and even in the minds of international politicians. The past decade in biological research has surely been the decade of genome research-from the scientific perspective, in the
