Reports are conflicting. On Tuesday The Wall Street Journal said that the White House would be hosting a joint announcement on Monday, but a White House spokesman later denied the report.
Researchers also say the report was premature.
I know that the White House is interested, and I'm sure they'll have statement, but nothing is planned right now. Researchers seem to agree that a joint or simultaneous announcement would be a breath of fresh air. So it would be lovely if people would get back to how this builds for the future. It would be a relief, researchers say, to focus on the science instead of the feud that has surrounded the race between the HGP and Celera. Adding another twist to the plot, the Sanger Center scientists in the United Kingdom, one of the five major sites working on the government-funded Human Genome Project , said they planned to call their own news conference on Monday, independent of the multinational effort.