In May 1998, a group of scientists established Celera Genetics in Rockwell, USA, with the goal of investing US$300 million to draw a complete human genetic map by 2001 and compete with the international Human Genome Project. .
On October 23, the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute issued a statement in the American "Science" magazine saying that all sequencing work of the Human Genome Project will be completed two years earlier than originally planned, that is, in 2003.
On March 15, 1999, the Wellcome Trust in the UK announced that as scientists speed up their work, the draft of the human genome will be completed in advance of 2000.
In September, China was approved to join the Human Genome Project and was responsible for determining 1 of the entire human genome sequence, that is, the 30 million base pairs on chromosome 3, making China the only country to join the Human Genome Project after the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany. , the sixth participating country in the International Human Genome Project after France, and the only developing country participating in this project.
On December 1, the International Human Genome Project joint research team announced that they had completely translated the genetic code of the 22nd pair of human chromosomes. This is the first time that humans have successfully completed the determination of the complete sequence of human chromosome genes.
On March 14, 2000, US President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a joint statement calling for the disclosure of human genome research results so that scientists from all over the world can freely use these results. They issued this statement in response to some private biotechnology companies competing with the international Human Genome Project for commercial gain and attempting to patent their own research results.
On April 6, Celera Company announced that it had deciphered the complete genetic code of an experimenter. However, many European and American scientists have expressed doubts about Celera's results, believing that the company's research "did not provide reliable parameters about the length and integrity of the gene sequence" and was therefore "loopholes."
At the end of April, Chinese scientists completed a working framework diagram of the human genome in accordance with the deployment of the International Human Genome Project.
In May, the completion date of the International Human Genome Project was once again advanced, from June 2003 to June 2001.
On May 8, an international scientific research team composed of scientists from Germany, Japan and other countries announced that they had basically completed the sequencing of the 21st pair of human chromosomes.
On June 26, scientists from various countries announced the working draft of the human genome.