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History

1991
The Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture started the Human Genome Project and Human Genome Center (Laboratory of Genome Database) was established as its standard-bearer.
1992
Laboratory of Structure Genomics started. A prefabricated building of the center was completed.
1993
A super parallel computer system was introduced. Laboratory of DNA Information Analysis started.
1996
The MESSC human genome project proceeded from its first stage to the second stage. Laboratory of Molecular Medicine and Laboratory of Genome Technology started.
1997
The main building of Human Genome Center was completed. A supercomputer system for genome informatics was introduced.
2000
Laboratory of Sequence Analysis and Laboratory of Functional Analysis in silico started.
2003
The building of multidisciplinary research was completed.

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