Editing Genome project (section)

{{Short description|Scientific endeavours to determine the complete genome sequence of an organism}}
[[File:The Genome sequence when printed fills a huge book of close print.JPG|thumb|upright=1.5|When printed, the human genome sequence fills around 100 huge books of close print]]

'''Genome projects''' are [[scientific]] endeavours that ultimately aim to determine the complete [[genome]] sequence of an [[organism]] (be it an [[animal]], a [[plant]], a [[fungus]], a [[bacterium]], an [[archaea]]n, a [[protist]] or a [[virus]]) and to annotate protein-coding [[gene]]s and other important genome-encoded features.<ref name='pevsner2009'>{{Cite book
| edition = 2nd
| publisher = Wiley-Blackwell
| isbn = 9780470085851
| last = Pevsner
| first = Jonathan
| title = Bioinformatics and functional genomics
| location = Hoboken, N.J
| year = 2009
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/bioinformaticsfu00pevs_0
}}</ref> The genome sequence of an organism includes the collective [[DNA]] sequences of each [[chromosome]] in the organism. For a [[bacteria|bacterium]] containing a single chromosome, a genome project will aim to map the sequence of that chromosome. For the human species, whose genome includes 22 pairs of [[autosome]]s and 2 sex chromosomes, a complete genome sequence will involve 46 separate chromosome sequences.

The [[Human Genome Project]] is a well known example of a genome project.<ref name="doe2009"/>