Leroy Hood, president of the Institute for Systems Biology, predicts "enormous numbers of genomes" will be completed over the next decade or so.

FORBES: All Mapped Out

Institutions involved include Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, SRI International, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Boston University, Burnham Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the University of Chicago, and the Institute for Systems Biology.

FORBES: A Better Database

Accelerator is a management company created by a group of health care-focused venture firms, a real estate firm and the Seattle-based Institute for Systems Biology.

FORBES: Incubators Are Usually Dumb, This One Might Not Be

In some cases, drug companies may want to avoid interfering with key proteins to avoid too many unintended side effects, says Marc Vidal, director of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

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