Venter and Fraser divorced in February 2005, but they continued to work closely together.
"There's no way that existing machines will get us where we need to go, " Venter says.
Dr Venter said Celera had filed a preliminary patent application on this particular whole gene.
Craig Venter, are taking a more far-out approach: building highly efficient organisms from scratch.
"There is no way existing machines will get us where we need to go, " Venter says.
Back in Rockville, Venter says he is "excited and encouraged" by the progress so far.
The bookies' favourite had been A Life Decoded, the autobiography of genetics pioneer Craig Venter.
Dr Venter therefore found himself with more time on his hands than he had been planning.
Venter and Fraser began to tussle over the direction of TIGR, and they separated in 2004.
So far, America has remained the No.1 destination for people such as Musk or Venter.
Let a thousand flowers bloom, and see which one wins Dr Venter's Grand Prix.
Venter himself founded Human Genome Sciences (nasdaq: HGSI - news - people ).
Dr Venter, however, has succeeded in engineering a secretion pathway from another organism into experimental algae.
Others like Craig Venter and Bob Langer keep advancing the industry by relentlessly pushing its technological frontier.
Venter's genome will get lots of publicity partly because he is Venter (see "Hype in Genes").
Venter told 15 of the current playing staff in late-February they will not be required next season.
"There was better research being done in-house at Genentech than at a lot of universities, " says Venter.
Craig Venter gave a presentation on a new approach to gene sequencing at a conference in Bilbao, Spain.
One expert on diversity, Steven Scherer of the Center for Applied Genomics, is a coauthor of Venter's paper.
By having his entire genome sequenced, Craig Venter has done something likely to get him into the textbooks--again.
Venter's Great Man act might frustrate those who like their science with a dose of modesty or circumspection.
The decision means Venter, a qualified medical doctor, can only resume match-day involvement with Saracens from 30 July.
That is also backed up with the on-going negotiations to keep players at the club, as Venter explained.
Venter believes that the fans have been satisfied that the side is still largely based on British talent.
Craig Venter tied (some say beat) the mighty U.S. government in the race to sequence the human genome.
Whether or not businesses behaved rationally, Venter argues that universities can't claim any high ground over biotech companies.
Its boss, Yang Huangming, is certainly the peer of people like Dr Venter, Dr Lander and Dr Collins.
ECONOMIST: The next advances in genomics may happen in China
That may be good enough for mapping key signposts on chromosomes, says Venter, who recently joined the company's board.
Dr Venter, too, left the NIH in the wake of the expressed-sequence-tag incident.
Venter says that he is "excited and encouraged" by the progress so far.
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