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...INSTITUTE FOR GENOMIC RESEARCH PRESIDENT: Claire Fraser FOUNDED: July 1992 EMPLOYEES: 230 WHAT IT DOES: Genomics research on a not-for-profit basis Started by Venter after he left the NIH, this outfit is the mother of Celera. Run now by his wife, Claire Fraser (Venter serves as chairman of the board), it claims credit for identifying many of the human genes used in research today. TIGR (pronounced Tiger) now concentrates on microbial and plant genomic research, the results of which it publishes free on its website: www.tigr.org...
Venter will undoubtedly continue to irritate. He sparked a new controversy just two weeks ago by negotiating an agreement with Science whereby the prestigious journal will publish his genome sequence without insisting that he take the customary parallel step of uploading the data to NIH's GenBank website. Leaders of the competing genome project symbolically chastised Science by taking their own version of the genome to the rival journal Nature. But it's thanks to Venter, aggressive and hard-nosed as he is, that the world can read the score of the human symphony--and those of some 40 other...
...been transformed in the past decade from a sleepy suburb into a bustling scientific Mecca. The 15-mile stretch of Interstate 270 that runs from Bethesda to Gaithersburg now houses one of the world's largest and smartest collections of genomic firms. The chief draw is the NIH, which dispenses $14 billion a year in research grants. But there are other attractions--proximity to Johns Hopkins, a start-up-friendly local government, an abundance of office space; and most of all, a critical mass of like-minded scientist-entrepreneurs determined to unravel the secrets of the genome and spin them...
...Bethesda-based campus of the NIH houses the world's foremost medical-research center. It consists of 26 institutes and centers, including the Genome Institute--Celera's fiercest competitor--led by Francis Collins. The NIH's research is deep in scientific expertise and wide in scope, from uncovering the genetic roots of the rarest cancers to understanding the molecular basis of the common cold. Venter got his start here, bringing both glory and controversy to the Institutes during eight stormy years...
...along the Rockville-Bethesda corridor, Venter established his brainchild--Celera--in Rockville. Here he built the world's largest collection of genome-sequencing computers and won the race to map the 3 billion letters of human DNA (as well as the genomes of several other species). But with the NIH's Human Genome Project publishing much of the same data free on its website, Venter must now convince corporate customers that his DNA maps are more accurate and his proprietary software tools indispensable...