Word: celera
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...surprise, therefore, that private firms have plunged into human-genome projects of their own. Nor is it surprising, given the potential payoff, that their scientists have found ways to speed up the decoding process. Indeed, one such company--Celera Genomics Corp., led by maverick scientist Craig Venter (see following story)--declared last spring that it would have the job substantially wrapped up in three years...
...Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and at the Sanger Centre passed a new milestone by decoding the first animal genome, that of a tiny roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans. At 97 million letters, C. elegans' genome is by far the most sophisticated ever sequenced. But if Venter's newly formed Celera (derived from the word celerity, which means swiftness) can pull it off, his proposal to shotgun the entire 3 billion-letter human genome in three years will make the roundworm's DNA look downright puny...
...only moderate precision by 2001. Says Mark Guyer, an assistant director with the NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute: "These data are so rich, it's hard not to extract value from them." But, he admits, "it would not have happened had it not been for the Celera announcement...
...fast as anything running at TIGR. With one of these machines, the 1,000 scientists who had spent 10 years decoding a yeast genome could have completed their work in one day. Emboldened by the new technology, Venter announced his plans to sequence the human genome rapidly. He founded Celera with Perkin-Elmer and promised to publish results freely on a quarterly basis. From now on, Venter said, he was in the information business, selling access to the genomic data he was gathering at breakneck speed...