The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, U.K. was part of the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium.
It was originally known as the Sanger Centre, named after Frederick Sanger, the father of DNA sequencing.
Their involvement in the Human Genome Project began in 1993. The institute kicked off the British contribution to sequencing the genome.