 Of all the different sequencing efforts at the time the human genome project (HGP) of course stands out. Not only is the human genome relatively large (roughly 3.2 billion base pairs (bps)) and of key interest to us as human beings, but the HGP itself was envisioned as a diverse large-scale research project with various strands and aims. Getting the sequence out of this project was the one goal that got the most attention in the wider media, but surely many would agree that other findings and practices developed within the HGP were of equal or even greater importance.