The Human Genome Project (HGP) with funding from the US National Institute of Health since 1990.
The VL may generate an enhanced ability to attract R&D contracts from the private sector due to flexibility of access to personnel, laboratory facilities, expertise, geographic presence, scale-up and scale-down capacity, etc

Laboratories around the world share their gene-sequencing data via central repositories in return for access to the collectively generated sets of data. The private sector provides contract services for the repositories and performs research on the data sets for specific purposes such as development of new pharmaceuticals. Press coverage of this VL project is extensive, often focusing on the intellectual property issues and their variances from one country or region to another. The data generated via this VL are likely to represent a true "gold-mine" for data mining over the coming decades.