[1] Following the Human Genome Project, scientists needed to know the biological and medical implications of the resulting wealth of genetic information.
Researchers can use the results from the project to gain a better understanding of the evolution of natural genomes and proteins, and their functionality.
This project had applications in medical therapy, new pharmaceuticals, and assigning functions to newly sequenced genes.
[1] Specifically, the Genome@home project aided the understanding of why thousands of different amino acid sequences all form the same structures and assisted the fields of proteomics and structural genomics by predicting the functions of newly discovered genes and proteins.
[1][3] It accumulated a large database of protein sequences, which will be used for important scientific purposes for years by the Pande Lab and other scientists across the world.