Of course, there's another side to this human genome thing. The sequencing report of the consortium of publicly funded laboratories, led by Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health, was reported in Nature the same week as the Science issue. When you click on the hyperlink, you are taken to the end of the article, and 231 people are listed. But the fine print tells you that this is only a partial list of authors, and that the supplementary material contains the full list. I didn't go there.
Nature also has an impressive assortment of figures and tables.
Partly because they're impressive, but mainly because I don't understand very much of the science in the articles. For example, let's go back to the insert I mentioned at the top. I infer that this is all shorthand for proteins, and, within the proteins, amino acids. So there's chemistry way down in there somewhere. I asked my daughter, a biology grad student at UCLA and gene sequencer par excellence , what she thought of the chart.