The Human Cancer Genome Project – HCGP – has been the most important contribution of Brazilian science to the understanding of the Human Genome. This project was co-sponsored by FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. Twenty-nine sequencing laboratories integrated by a bioinformatic service and a laboratory carried out the project. This effort has generated more than 1 million of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) in various human cancers. Most of these sequences are available to […]