<P> The Human Genome Project ( HGP ) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of nucleotide base pairs that make up human DNA , and of identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint . It remains the world 's largest collaborative biological project . After the idea was picked up in 1984 by the US government when the planning started , the project formally launched in 1990 and was declared complete in 2003 . Funding came from the US government through the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) as well as numerous other groups from around the world . A parallel project was conducted outside government by the Celera Corporation , or Celera Genomics , which was formally launched in 1998 . Most of the government - sponsored sequencing was performed in twenty universities and research centers in the United States , the United Kingdom , Japan , France , Germany , Spain and China . </P>
<P> The Human Genome Project ( HGP ) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of nucleotide base pairs that make up human DNA , and of identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint . It remains the world 's largest collaborative biological project . After the idea was picked up in 1984 by the US government when the planning started , the project formally launched in 1990 and was declared complete in 2003 . Funding came from the US government through the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) as well as numerous other groups from around the world . A parallel project was conducted outside government by the Celera Corporation , or Celera Genomics , which was formally launched in 1998 . Most of the government - sponsored sequencing was performed in twenty universities and research centers in the United States , the United Kingdom , Japan , France , Germany , Spain and China . </P>
when did the human genome project start and finish
when did the human genome project start and finish
1990 2003
1990 2003