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	Edge: J. Craig Venter
		CRAIG VENTER is one of leading scientists of the 21st century for his visionary contributions in genomic research.
		He is founder and president of the J. Craig Venter Institute and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation.
		The Venter Institute conducts basic research that advances the science of genomics; specializes in high volume genome sequencing, and explores the ethical and policy implications of genomic discoveries and advances.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/bios/venter.html (333 words)

	Craig Venter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Venter was suddenly fired by Celera in early 2002 after it became clear that selling genome data would not become profitable and Venter resisted efforts by the company board to change the strategic direction of the company.
		Craig Venter is circling the globe in his luxury yacht The Sorcerer II that updates the great scientific voyages of the 18th and the 19th centuries, HMS Beagle and HMS Challenger.
		Craig Venter is capturing the DNA of bacterias and viruses on filter paper and shipping it to be sequenced and analyzed at his headquarters in Rockville, Maryland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Craig_Venter (555 words)

	J. Craig Venter - Home
		Craig Venter is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his contributions to genomic research.
		He is founder and president of the J. Craig Venter Institute and J. Craig Venter Science Foundation, not-for-profit research and support organizations dedicated to human genomic research, exploration of social and ethical issues in genomics, and alternative energy solutions through microbial sources.
		Venter is the author of more than 200 articles and the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, public honors, and scientific awards, including Financial Times Man of the Year Award, Time Magazine Man of the Year (runner up), 2002 Gairdner Foundation International Award, and the 2001 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize.
	www.engineeringchallenges.org /cms/7124/7276.aspx (363 words)

	Symposium on the Nature of Science—Craig Venter
		Venter is passionate about the advances that genomics will bring to everyday life and inspires his listeners with his views on how genomics will empower everyone to take a more active role in their health.
		Craig Venter is the president of three not-for-profit organizations, The Center for the Advancement of Genomics, the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives, and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation.
		Venter is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and scientific awards including the 2002 Gardiner Foundation International Prize, the 2001 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, the 2001 Takeda Award for Techno-Entrepreneurial Achievement for Individual/Humanity Well-Being, the 2000 King Faisal Award in Science, and the Common Wealth Award.
	ed.fnal.gov /symposium/venter.html (864 words)

	Life, a Nobel Story \| SPEAKERS: Craig Venter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He is founder and president of The J. Craig Venter Science Foundation, the Center for the Advancement of Genomics and the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives and he is the founder and chairman of the board of the Institute for Genomic Research.
		Venter's radical methods—including the "shotgun" technique, which involved using high-speed computers to reassemble the genome of an organism after it had been scrambled in an ordinary kitchen blender—made many in the genomics field, extremely skeptical.
		Venter predicts they will be able to create a synthetic genome that, when inserted into a cell, can live and replicate within 3 years.
	www.kvcvbiotech.be /lifeanobelstory/speakers_7.html (342 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Craig Venter, the controversial geneticist who led private industry's decoding of the human genome, has revealed a startling secret.
		But now Venter has revealed he had overridden the process when he was head of the company, with the result that its genome was mostly based on his DNA.
		Venter said that because of his action he had discovered that he had inherited a variant gene known as ApoE4 from one of his parents, a piece of mutant DNA associated with an abnormal fat metabolism and an elevated risk of Alzheimer's.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4403109,00.html (402 words)

	J. Craig Venter Institute - Research Groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Craig Venter and his colleagues, many of whom continue to work with him in his affiliated organizations—the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation (JCVSF) and The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), have been leading the way in revolutionizing the field of genomics.
		Smith and Venter and are experts in the construction of DNA libraries and DNA manipulation.
		The team at the Venter Institute is concentrating on new methodologies to synthesize large segments of DNA to eventually enable the construction of whole artificial chromosomes.
	www.venterinstitute.org /research (1079 words)

	NOVA Online \| Cracking the Code of Life \| Dr. Craig Venter
		Venter: No. It's all volunteers and, in fact, we had a lot of volunteers, and so some of the volunteers were here on the staff, and we also had an ad in the Washington Post, which people responded to.
		Venter: If each bead was a different letter of genetic code, imagine having beads 500 feet long, you know, these necklaces 500 feet long, and then imagine 27 million of them piled on the floor, and your job was to go compare-- And the order of the beads was different on every one.
		Venter: With rare diseases-- In the case of Huntington's disease, which is a rare exception to the rule, yes.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/genome/deco_venter.html (10204 words)

	City Arts & Lectures
		Among the most cited scientists in the world, Venter is the author of more than 200 research articles on genomics and the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and scientific awards.
		Venter and his team of scientists used his "whole genome shotgun technique" to decode the first free-living organism genome four years ahead of schedule.
		Venter and Celera Genomics' research culminated in 2001 with the highly anticipated publication of the human genome in the journal Science.
	www.cityarts.net /n.venter.html (221 words)

	Technology - Craig Venter's Quest to Overthrow Merck, Pfizer, Dow, DuPont, ... - Intro - FORTUNE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The moment was vintage Craig Venter: Biology's bad boy stood before a crowd of reporters in Washington, D.C., trumpeting his latest achievement, with a beaming Spencer Abraham, the U.S. Secretary of Energy, by his side.
		Venter, in case you don't remember, is the renegade scientist who in 1998 challenged the U.S. government in a race to sequence the human genome—and fought his giant rival to a history-making tie.
		Venter plans to use commercially available snippets of DNA to assemble the smallest and simplest of genomes, a lab-made thread of just 300 genes, and insert it into a bacterium that has been stripped of its own genetic code.
	www.fortune.com /fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,593705,00.html (459 words)

	Pop!Tech - The Impact of Technology on People
		J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., is regarded as one of leading scientists of the 21st century for his invaluable contributions in genomic research and is one of the most frequently cited scientists.
		He is of the and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation, not-for-profit, research and support organizations dedicated to human genomic research, to exploration of social and ethical issues in genomics, and to seeking alternative energy solutions through microbial sources.
		Venter is the author of more than 200 research articles and is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, public honors, and scientific awards.
	www.poptech.org /external/speakers.cfm?page=speaker_detail&id=232 (410 words)

	TIGR's J. Craig Venter Takes Aim at the Big Questions
		Venter's lab had just spent a year sequencing its first gene, so he got his hands on the first commercial automatic sequencer, and his lab may have been the first to make it work.
		Venter spent the next 10 years as a professor of biochemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and from 1982 to 1985 he was also an associate chief cancer research scientist at the Roswell Park Memorial Institute.
		Venter: It was actually six months, but there was also a clause in our contract that said if there were one or two genes that were really going to have a profound impact on medicine, that they could hold things up for up to 18 months.
	www.sciencewatch.com /sept-oct97/sw_sep-oct97_page3.htm (1673 words)

	BioPortfolio News : J. Craig Venter's Next Little Thing: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Venter launched the new business with his longtime collaborator, Hamilton O. Smith, who won a Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine and is a noted expert in DNA manipulation techniques.
		Perhaps Venter's biggest personnel coup to date was the hiring earlier this month of Aristides Patrinos, who directed the Energy Department's biological and environmental research and launched its efforts to solve energy and environmental problems using microbes.
		Venter has generally avoided taking venture capital money in order to maintain tight control, something he didn't have at Celera, where he was ultimately fired.
	www.bioportfolio.com /feb_06/28_02_2006/J_Craig_Venter_s_Next_Little.html (1269 words)

	Discover Dialogue: Geneticist Craig Venter - Discover Magazine - science news articles online technology magazine ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 1998 J. Craig Venter burst into the public consciousness with the audacious announcement that his new company, Celera Genomics, would mount a rival effort to the $3 billion 15-year Human Genome Project spearheaded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
		Venter said his private company would beat the public effort by four years, finishing in 2001 instead of 2005.
		Venter was criticized by the public project scientists, led by Francis Collins, for planning to profit from the data.
	www.discover.com /issues/dec-04/departments/discover-dialogue (1045 words)

	John Craig Venter Biography \| World of Genetics
		John Craig Venter, currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Celera Genomics, is one of the central figures in the Human Genome Project.
		Venter devised the so-called shotgun method, in which a genome was blown apart into many small bits and then to sequence them without regard to their position.
		Venter's accomplishments are considerable, both technically and as a catalyst to spur genome sequencing.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-craig-venter-wog (461 words)

	GNN - Exploring the Sargasso Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Venter and his colleagues at the Institute for Biological and Energy Alternatives (IBEA) in Rockville, Maryland, which Venter heads, collaborated with scientists at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, the University of Southern California, and The Institute for Genomic Research, also in Rockville, Maryland.
		Venter is not the first to sequence the genes of microbes from the ocean.
		Venter and his crew embarked on a test study in the Sargasso Sea because they thought it would be a fairly uncomplicated part of the ocean to study.
	www.genomenewsnetwork.org /articles/2004/03/04/sargasso.php (1549 words)

	JCVSF - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The $500,000 technology prize, funded through the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation endowment, will be awarded once to an individual or group of researchers whose technology significantly enhances the field of high throughput DNA sequencing by enabling a human genome to be sequenced for $1,000 or less.
		J. Craig Venter Science Foundation is the support organization for The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), The Center for the Advancement of Genomics(TCAG), Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives(IBEA), and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation Joint Technology Center (JTC).
		Venter will be the president and chairman of each organization and will continue his role as chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), the not-for-profit genomic research institute he founded in 1992.
	www.venterscience.org /news.html (1326 words)

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		J.Craig Venter recognized the labor and time saving possibilities of the whole genome shotgun method, and he and his team developed an assembly algorithm that can handle large volumes of sequencing data produced by shotgun sequencing of large scale genomes such as the human genome.
		The whole genome shotgun method is a strategy that skips the laborious and time-consuming mapping process of the hierarchical shotgun approach by reassembling random fragments taken from the genome as a whole using computer algorithms (Figure 3.).
		Venter founded The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR), where an algorithm was developed for the assembly of millions of cDNA fragments synthesized with the human messenger RNA(13).
	www.takeda-foundation.jp /en/award/takeda/2001/fact/02_4.html (825 words)

	Q & A with J. Craig Venter
		Craig Venter (left) sampling in Sargasso Sea with Tony Knapp, director of Bermuda Biological Station for Research.
		Craig Venter sees the world in a different way than most people — through the eyes of a maverick scientist.
		Q: The J. Craig Venter Institute recently partnered with UC San Diego to build cyberinfrastructure for studying the genomes of microbes in the world’s oceans.
	ucsdnews.ucsd.edu /thisweek/2006/oct/10_16_venter.asp (2254 words)

	MilkenInstitute.Org > Events > > Speakers  >  Craig Venter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Craig Venter is Founder and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation.
		Venter is one of leading scientists of the 21st century, recognized for his visionary contributions in genomic research.
		In 2003, Venter launched a global expedition to obtain and study microbes from environments ranging from the world’s oceans to urban centers.
	www.milkeninstitute.org /events/events.taf?EventID=GC05&SPID=1528&cat=allconf&function=show&level1=speakers&level2=bio (296 words)

	Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society: J. Craig Venter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Biochemist, entrepreneur and gene pioneer J. Craig Venter is CEO of Celera Genomics.
		Venter credits his experience as a hospital corpsman in Vietnam with spurring an interest in medicine that developed into a passion for research.
		Venter left NIH in 1992 to start the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), where he developed the "whole genome shotgun sequencing" technique that allowed him to map the first complete genome of a living organism.
	www.sigmaxi.org /programs/prizes/common.venter.shtml (232 words)

	C&EN: COVER STORY - TRIUMPH OVER NATURE
		Venter as a child and with captured sea snake in Da Nang, Vietnam, where he served as a Navy medical corpsman.
		By then, however, Venter had obtained private support from a venture-capital firm for his gene-finding efforts--a $70 million, 10-year research grant that enabled him to leave NIH and set up the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville in 1992.
		Venter believed strongly that the whole-genome shotgun technique would prove to be a shortcut to bacterial and larger genome sequences.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/coverstory/8033/8033craigventer.html (1532 words)

	Biologist Venter aims to create life from scratch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Venter's plan is to take this technology to its logical extreme -- to manufacture and stitch together all the genes necessary for a bacterium to survive.
		Venter is best known for his role as president of Celera Genomics, a unit of Applera Corp. founded in 1998 to generate a private copy of the human genome.
		Venter and Smith concluded the only way to test the viability of a minimal genetic life form would be to build one.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05180/530330.stm (1966 words)

	Dr. J. Craig Venter -- "Our Genomic Future" - Kresge Library - Oakland University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Craig J. Venter, president of The Center for the Advancement of Genomics, has played a leading role in sequencing and analyzing the human genome.
		Venter has been called one of the top three scientists of the past hundred years.
		Venter was one of the few takers, but this opportunity to follow his own lights enabled him to exploit his gifts for intuition and metaphorical thinking as compensation for his struggle with memorization.
	www.kl.oakland.edu /services/events/honors_college/venter.htm (641 words)

	Wired 12.08: Craig Venter's Epic Voyage to Redefine the Origin of the Species (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A lot of people wonder what happened to J. Craig Venter, the maverick biologist who a few years ago raced the US government to sequence the human genetic code.
		Venter is here not just to enjoy himself, though he has been doing plenty of that.
		But instead of bagging his finds in bottles and gunnysacks, Venter is capturing their DNA on filter paper and shipping it to be sequenced and analyzed at his headquarters in Rockville, Maryland.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/12.08/venter.html (1079 words)

	Economic Club of Washington: Speech Archives: J. Craig Venter
		Dr. Craig Venter is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of Celera Genomics, a company that he helped to establish in 1998.
		Craig Venter received both his bachelor's degree in biochemistry and his Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology from the University of California at San Diego.
		Dr. Venter left NIH in 1992 to found The Institute for Genomic Research, a not–for–profit genomic research institution, where he developed the genome shotgun sequencing technique that enabled him to map the first complete genome of a living organism.
	www.economicclub.org /Pages/archive/fulltext/arch-venter.htm (5004 words)

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