It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
Following this he played an important role in data collection for and interpretation of the human genome sequence.
Last year the researchers came across a piece of the human genome sequence that had been overlooked.
The diabetes work was done mostly before the human genome sequence became available, and such studies should be much easier in the future.
Those tools would be freely available to other scientists, he said, just as the human genome sequence has been.
He will have developed a powerful general method for linking the human genome sequence to disease.
Each of the other 50 classical subfamilies was represented by two or more human sequences.
After months of pressure, Indonesia recently agreed to release avian and human sequences found there.
His computer prediction methods, based on the latest version of the human genome sequence, indicated 24,500.
Celera in particular has spent several hundred million dollars to develop a complete human genome sequence on its own.