Human Genome Project n.
An international research effort to map and identify the role of all genes in the human genome.
| Human Genome Project An international scientific research project designed to study and identify all of the genes in the human genome, to determine the base-pair sequences in human DNA, and to store this information in computer databases. The Human Genome Project began in the United States in 1990 and was completed in 2003. |
A worldwide project, completed in 2000, to determine the precise arrangement of nucleotides in human DNA (see DNA sequencing).