The Human Genome Library: Chromosome 1, Volume 1
Designed by Kerr Noble for the Wellcome Collection. Sequencing and analysis data provided by The Sanger Centre and The University of Washington Sequencing Centre, 2005
The Wellcome Trust commissioned a complete printed ‘library’ of the Human Genome composed of 119 volumes containing the approximately 3,000 million letters referring to the sequence of chemical base pairs that compose DNA. The sequence of chromosome 1, the largest of the human chromosomes, is a string of 247199719 DNA bases. Regions of the genome that are used to make proteins – less than 2 percent of the genome – are shown in upper-case. All other bases are shown in lower-case. This volume includes the letter ‘n’ to show places where sequencing technology does not allow researchers to accurately identify which DNA base is present. The sequencing of the human genome has generated new scientific knowledge and hopes for improved medical diagnosis and treatments.
