The Human Genome: an anatomy of information

Buffalo News, March 23, 1997

We briefly place the human genome in its place among those of other living organisms and then consider its structure. 300 full sets of encyclopedia Brittanicas restricted to  A, C, G, and Ts. What's in there? How is it all organized?

Learning resources

• Study Guide
• EMBL Ensemble: 'Google Earth' for genomes.
• Lander et al. (2001) Initial Sequencing and Analysis of the Human Genome
• Structure and function of the human genome: Little, 2005
• Nurk and the T2T gang (2022) The complete sequence of a human genome
• Rhie and the T2T gang (2023) The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
• Repetitive DNA sequence detection and its role in the human genome
• Narration: Human Genome Geography