According to Chiang Hoang-yung, manager of the Development Center for Biotechnology, the genome projects of the 1990s are regarded as equivalent in importance to the Manhattan Project of the 1940s-which resulted in the creation of the A-bomb-and the Apollo program of the 1960s-which put the first man on the moon.
生物技術中心經理江晃榮指出，繼四○年代導致原子彈發明的「曼哈頓計畫」、六○年代使人類登上月球的「阿波羅計畫」後，有人將九○年代的基因體計畫視為「生命科學的登月計畫」。