HGP-WRITE

As defined at this initial meeting, HGP-write is an open, international scientific research project led by a group of scientific leaders from multiple disciplines, including biology, chemistry, computational biology, engineering, social science, and ethics. The primary goal of the project is to reduce the costs of engineering, or writing, human and other large genomes in cell lines more than 1,000-fold within ten years, in order to understand the blueprint for life provided by the Human Genome Project (HGP-read)... Writing DNA is the future of science and medicine, and holds the promise of pulling us forward into a better future. While reading DNA code has continued to advance, our capability to write DNA code remains limited, which in turn restricts our ability to understand and manipulate biological systems. GP-write will enable scientists to move beyond observation to action, and facilitate the use of biological engineering to address many of the global problems facing humanity.....