We have made a great stride forward, but we cannot exactly sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labors. There is such a thing as genetic variability and that has not been addressed by the Human Genome Project. Furthermore, we still haven't got much more of a clue about the function/regulation of many of the genes. Nor have we addressed the disparity between the number of cDNA transcripts and number of open reading frames found on the genome amalgam that has been sequenced.
I would like people to explain a bit more of these remaining issues to the public at large, otherwise they might expect just a tad too much from the achievement. Putting one man on the moon did not exactly mean we had conquered space, but it was a great achievement. This genome business is pretty much on the same scale, I'm afraid.
