Special projects often related specifically to genetics and not generally genetic genealogy. But of interest here.
A larger, wider-scope list of projects can be found at the GA4GH Catalog. The catalog is a bit dated and does not always use the more common name. For example, the 100K Genome Project (follow on to the 1KGenome project) is labeled as "Genomics England" and cannot be found with a search term of "100k". Or the Ancestry database is described as 1.4 million entries when it exceeds 20 million as of 2022.
A rough order of these projects and their accomplishments are::
HGP which spawned the GRCh and the creation of a single, initial linear human-genome model developed with Sanger sequencing. Followed by the 1K Genomes project to study more of the diversity (focused mostly on SNPs) and develop the NGS technology (helping reduce the cost by 10, then 100, then 1000x for sequencing a human genome). Then the follow-on 100K Genomes and similar African projects based on the very cheap NGS technology developed earlier. Now the T2T and expansion to HPRC, CPC and more to create graph-based pangenome models covering larger, structural variations between populations. And allowing the complete sequence (no gaps), automatically of a true whole genome of any sample provided it.
A larger, wider-scope list of projects can be found at the GA4GH Catalog. The catalog is a bit dated and does not always use the more common name. For example, the 100K Genome Project (follow on to the 1KGenome project) is labeled as "Genomics England" and cannot be found with a search term of "100k". Or the Ancestry database is described as 1.4 million entries when it exceeds 20 million as of 2022.
A rough order of these projects and their accomplishments are::
HGP which spawned the GRCh and the creation of a single, initial linear human-genome model developed with Sanger sequencing. Followed by the 1K Genomes project to study more of the diversity (focused mostly on SNPs) and develop the NGS technology (helping reduce the cost by 10, then 100, then 1000x for sequencing a human genome). Then the follow-on 100K Genomes and similar African projects based on the very cheap NGS technology developed earlier. Now the T2T and expansion to HPRC, CPC and more to create graph-based pangenome models covering larger, structural variations between populations. And allowing the complete sequence (no gaps), automatically of a true whole genome of any sample provided it.