Drawing the map of life
Subtitle: inside the Human Genome Project
By: Victor K. McElheny
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780465043330
Description: Chronicles the race to map the human genome, noting the impact of skeptics in the 1970s and 1980s, the breakthroughs of the 1990s, and the political maelstrom that ensued in the face of corporate involvement and the fight for credit.
Notes: "A Merloyd Lawrence book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Building the toolbox; title: Getting started; title: Scaling up; title: Crisis; title: Surprises; title: Human variety; title: The struggle for medical relevance.