 I think the three big achievements of the human genome project are as follows. Number one, it taught us how to ask really big questions and to answer them by working together collectively in teams. That was brand new for biology when the human genome project began. The second great achievement is that not only gave us all of the information in the human genome and opened up the possibility of asking new questions, but it also gave us the information about not just model organisms but organisms that are absolutely obscure and would never have been studied had it not been for the ability to sequence lots of organisms. I think the third achievement is related to that, which is it opened biology to quantitative approaches. We have been a very reductionist science before the human genome project began, but now we are a much more computational and quantitative science and that means that we can ask and answer questions that could never have been answered in the past.