The genome project has been applied to unravel the genes of many animals, plants, bacteria and viruses. Evolution writ large. This is partly due to the necessity of getting the funds to carry out the genome project.
Politicians hold the purse strings and require almost instant gratification.
Unfortunately it will take some time to understand how all these genes are behaving or misbehaving. I will give you an analogy. Imagine taking a large book such as the Bible and putting it through a shredding machine. Then you mix all the shredded pieces of paper up and give them to a team of experts who don't know the Bible, and ask them then to reconstruct the biblical text from all the shreds of paper. It can be done as we have seen from the Dead Sea Scrolls.