Happy DNA Day! Close ties between the HGP & GO

DNA Day is a celebration of the work of Franklin, Wilkins, Crick & Watson, published on this day in 1953. April is also the month the Human Genome Project (HGP) was declared complete, in 2003. But did you know that several of the people responsible for the HGP are also deeply involved in GO? David Botstein et al. laid down the framework for constructing genetic linkage maps using restriction fragment length polymorphisms in 1980. That work helped enable sequencing for the HGP. Some years late...