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The History of Bioinformatics

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1910

 

"Thomas Hunt Morgan was the first to recognise genes are carried on chromosomes: the basis for modern genetics. He demonstrated the existence of sex-linked genes and expanded trait linkage using "crossing-over" (1)

1953

 

"James Watson and Francis Crick proposed the double-stranded, helical, complementary, anti-parallel model for DNA" (1)

1988

 

"National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) founded at NIH/NLM" (1)

1995

 

"First completed sequence of a bacterial genome, Haemophilus influenzae by TIGR" (1)

1865

 

"Gregor Mendel investigated "traits" passed from parents to prodigy and coined the terms dominant and recessive traits" (1)

1933

 

"A new technique, electrophoresis, was introduced by Arne Tiselius for separating proteins in solution" (1)

1984

 

"Chiron Corp determined the entire sequence of the HIV-1 genome" (1)

1990

 

"Human Genome Project launched: estimated cost of $13 billion (plan 15 years)" (1)

Craig Venter - The first man to completely sequence the human genome, and his at that.

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