Introduction to
Structural Genomics Project
P. C. Lyu
Department of Life Sciences
National Tsing Hua University
The ultimate goal of the Human Genome Project is to read the order, letter by letter, of those
3 billion bases.
- 99.9% draft completed June, 2000 !
30,000 ~ 80,000 Genes
- but the interpretation of the gene sequence data from this massive exercise will be greatly hampered until structures and functions can be assigned to the corresponding proteins.