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Bio-IT World
March 17, 2004 |
Genome War and Peace The belated result is a fluid and frequently compelling book, with some fascinating insights into the commercial and political wrangling that accompanied the creation of Celera and ultimately undermined Venter's goal of becoming the Bloomberg of genomics.   |
Bio-IT World
June 2005
Maureen McDonough |
Celera Releases Genome Data In a decision that essentially marks the end of the genome wars, Celera Genomics will release its formerly proprietary human, mouse, and rat genome sequences to the public domain. |
Salon.com
June 26, 2000
Ralph Brave |
The great gene race A tiny private company and the giant public genome project jointly crossed the finish line. But the upstart really won. |
Bio-IT World
November 12, 2002
Davies et al. |
John Craig Venter Unvarnished The former Celera CEO talks about that company's politics, the future of sequencing technology, and his own genome. |
Bio-IT World
August 18, 2004
Kevin Davies |
Bio IT World President's Award: Francis Collins The director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) spoke of collaboration and computation during his acceptance speech. |
BusinessWeek
December 13, 2004
John Carey |
Craig Venter: DNA's Mapmaker Who could ever have imagined that a surfer working as a night clerk at Sears, Roebuck & Co. would eventually become the driving force behind the race to read the genetic code of humanity? |
Salon.com
February 13, 2001
Arthur Allen |
Size doesn't matter As scientists unveil the human genome findings, it turns out we have a lot fewer genes than we'd thought, and not many more than a fruit fly... |
Bio-IT World
February 2006
Kevin Davies |
Celera Drops Drugs for Diagnostics The company that raced to sequence the human genome, ditched its flamboyant CEO and database subscription model to become a drug development company, has decided to change course yet again. |
Salon.com
June 27, 2000
Tabitha M. Powledge |
Book of life? Hosanna! The Human Genome Project has been completed. We will now cure diseases, weed out defective genes and create a new supergeneration in the near future. Not. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2011
Jill Wechsler |
Guiding a Revolution in Science Francis Collins led the genomic revolution as director of the International Human Genome Project and director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the NIH from 1993 to 2008. |
Bio-IT World
March 2006
Kevin Davies |
Church Inquiry Gets Personal Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church with his plan for the Personal Genome Project is a likely contender for the X Prize that will be awarded to the group or individual that most helps cross the $1,00 genome threshold. |
Bio-IT World
March 8, 2005
Melissa Trudinger |
Craig Venter: In Darwin's Wake Since leaving Celera Genomics in 2003, J. Craig Venter has turned his attention from mining the human genome to exploring the life forms of the oceans. Here, he talks about his voyage. |
Wired
December 2002
Douglas McGray |
Supermicrobe Man First Craig Venter cracked the human genome. Now he wants to sequence the ocean and save the world. |
Bio-IT World
December 10, 2002 |
Craig Venter Unvarnished (part II) The former Celera CEO covers privacy, ESTs, and his new research institutes. |
Bio-IT World
May 2006
Kevin Davies |
Ashburner Receives Bioinformatics Benjamin Franklin Award A noted Drosophila researcher who helped lead the project to sequence the fruit fly genome in the late 1990s, Michael Ashburner was lauded for his steadfast championing of open-source resources for the genetics and informatics communities. |
Bio-IT World
February 10, 2003
Kevin Davies |
With a Click of the Mouse What do Eminem and Mus musculus have in common? About 30,000 genes, for a start. The author mulls over the second mammalian genome. |
Bio-IT World
November 12, 2002
Kevin Davies |
DNA for Dummies? The journal Nature Genetics has just published a user's guide to the human genome -- and none too soon. |
Salon.com
April 24, 2000
Mark Compton |
Lean, green gene-counting machine Incyte CEO Roy Whitfield gives biotech investors and patent critics a few lessons on genomic research. |
Wired
August 2000
Jennifer Hillner |
Area 22 The inside story of the first fully sequenced chromosome. |
Fast Company
September 2000
John Ellis |
The Secret of Life The mapping of the human genome, says Craig Venter, will change science, research, medicine, politics, health insurance, and the way biology looks at the last 3 billion years of evolution. And that's just the beginning. |
Bio-IT World
April 2006
Karen Hopkin |
AGBT Meeting Puts Genome Advances Front and Center If the presentations at February's Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) are any indication, the race to generate fresh approaches to produce more sequence for less is far from over -- and looks to be heating up. |
Chemistry World
September 17, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
US genomics lead being lost to China The head of the National Institutes of Health is warning that the US is lagging behind China in genomics. |
Bio-IT World
June 15, 2003
Kevin Davies |
The Overly Bold and the Beautiful For many (who really ought to know better), the temptation to fetishize DNA is all but irresistible. |
Salon.com
February 26, 2002
Annalee Newitz |
Genome liberation The information that details who we are is too important to be privately owned... |
Bio-IT World
September 16, 2004
Kevin Davies |
Computing the Genome Boston University's Charles DeLisi explains his involvement with the human genome project and why he has recently turned his attention to systems biology and an AIDS vaccine. |
Bio-IT World
September 2005
Kevin Davies |
Fantastic 454: DNA Sequencing Pyrotechnics In an exciting advance for DNA sequencing technology, a research team at 454 Life Sciences Corp. has essentially sequenced and assembled a bacterial genome sequence based on a mere 4-hour run on the company's proprietary instrument. |
Bio-IT World
April 15, 2003
Kevin Davies |
Genes, Girls, and Honest Jim Honest Jim Watson remains as charming, humorous, obstinate, and outrageous as ever. |
Bio-IT World
April 2007
Proffitt & Davies |
CAMERA Database Snaps Into Action The new Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis database was developed to store and disseminate the flood of genetic data being generated by work such as J. Craig Venter's Global Ocean Sampling expedition. |
Bio-IT World
July 15, 2003
Salvatore Salamone |
Buying Power Celera's decision to replace its Compaq supercomputer with IBM and EMC is surprising. It also provides a fascinating how to procurement model for the bio-IT industry. |
Bio-IT World
June 2006
John Russell |
Gilna to Captain CAMERA Later this summer researchers will gain access to version 0.5 of CAMERA (the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis) a platform replete with a wealth of data, analysis tools, and high-speed computational infrastructure. |
Bio-IT World
February 2006
Kevin Davies |
The Cancer Genome Atlas Pilot Launches Researchers from the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the launch of a three-year, $100 million pilot program for the Human Cancer Genome Project. |
BusinessWeek
October 23, 2008
John Carey |
Reading the Entire Genetic Code Pioneers such as 23andMe and Navigenics use snips of genes to make medical predictions. Now new tools from more start-ups are on the horizon. |
Bio-IT World
November 19, 2004
John Russell |
GSAC Rolls On Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference rolls on... Stephen Quake discusses research on single-molecule DNA sequencing by synthesis... A photocleavable fluorescent nucleotide for DNA sequencing and analysis... |
BusinessWeek
May 9, 2005
John Carey |
Dr. Francis S. Collins: On The Trail Of Disease Genes Collins is leading the search for DNA variations that can result in illnesses. |
Bio-IT World
August 15, 2005
Kevin Davies |
Pimp My Genome As costs plummet, the ability to rapidly synthesize and customize longer, more intricate fragments of genomic DNA opens up a plethora of applications in basic and applied biology. A commercial synthetic biology industry is beginning to take shape. |
Bio-IT World
October 2006
Michael A. Greeley |
What Use Is the $1,000 Genome? Industry is focused on the $1,000 genome -- but investors want to see revenue and profits. The goal of simply reaching the $1,000 genome threshold inherently lacks a business model. What are the applications or products or services that will be unleashed by reaching that milestone? |
Chemistry World
July 13, 2011
Hayley Birch |
Naked mole-rat genome holds clue to beating cancer The recently published draft sequence of the naked mole-rat genome promises to reveal the secrets of its long and remarkably cancer-free existence, potentially providing new targets for anti-cancer drugs. |
Bio-IT World
Dec 2006/Jan 2007
Kevin Davies |
The One Percent Difference New research reveals a shocking new layer of human genome variation with profound implications for the future of genomic analysis and personalized medicine. |
Bio-IT World
December 10, 2002
Rotem Sorek |
Alternative Splicing: Listen to the Mouse The completed mouse genome may help to finally pin down the size of the transcriptome. |
Wired
August 2004
James Shreeve |
Craig Venter's Epic Voyage to Redefine the Origin of the Species He wanted to play God, so he cracked the human genome. Now Craig Venter wants to play Darwin and collect the DNA of everything on the planet. |
Salon.com
June 27, 2000
Ralph Brave |
Building better humans The sci-fi possibilities of genetic tampering may soon become real. And there's no law against them. |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: DNA With human cloning and other controversial bombshells waiting just around the corner, expect DNA to remain in the public eye for decades to come. |
Bio-IT World
April 15, 2003
Malorye Branca |
Beyond the Blueprint How will the wealth of data emanating from the human genome and allied technologies impact research on health and disease? |
Bio-IT World
February 2006
Kevin Davies |
Solexa Readies 1G Genetic Analyzer Solexa, one of the firms vying to crack the $1,000 genome threshold, has officially launched its first commercial genome sequencing instrument. |
Bio-IT World
February 2007 |
Bio*IT World's Coming Attractions 2007 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo preview -- Meet the Keynotes... Oracle Users... Systems are Go... Candid Camera... A Vital IT Alliance... Next Generation Informatics... etc. |
Bio-IT World
February 18, 2004 |
Smokin' Supercomputing Paracel's Jason Molle on solving the IT challenges of biological analysis |
Bio-IT World
November 14, 2003
Julia Boguslavsky |
Genome Center in a Box Scientists at 454 Life Sciences developed an integrated end-to-end instrument that performs hundreds of thousands of reactions in parallel -- from sample preparation, amplification, and sequencing to data storage and bioinformatics. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
January 1, 2012
Bill Drummy |
Scared to Death The pharma industry's risk-aversion is risking its survival. Where did the courage to innovate go? |
Bio-IT World
November 19, 2004
Kevin Davies |
The Book on Bioinformatics Research director David Mount talks about his new book "Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis," sequence analysis, and teaching bioinformatics |
Popular Mechanics
April 25, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Inside the Forgotten X Prize--the One That Can Save Your Life An extensive look at the Archon X Prize in Genomics, the $10 million race for a cheap, disease-hunting gene sequencer that could land on your kitchen counter sooner than you think. |
