Timeline | bioinformatics

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)

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1953

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

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1988

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

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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)

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1933

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

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1984

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

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1990

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

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