The best project is one that asks a novel question.
Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.