Milestones
- 1859 Darwin
- 1865 Mendel
- 1944 Avery - identifies DNA as genetic material
- 1953 Watson and Crick
- 1977 Sanger - dideoxy chain termination
- 1990 Human Genome Project begins
- 1997 Wilson & Mardis - Fluorescent DNA sequencing (large-scale genome sequencing)
- 2001 Green - “Strategies for the systematic sequencing of complex genomes”
- 2001 Initial Human Genome Sequence published
- 2003 Human Genome Project complete