Portrait of a serial sequencer: Not even the sky is the limit for genome giant's grand plans. There has been lots of buzz about Craig Venter going around in the blogging world. Richard Gayle posted a little synopsis and commentary on his blog. Snowdeal.org also has a blog entry. I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Venter when he visited the campus two years ago (or was it 3 years ago?). We talked a little about bioinformatics and the technology he used. I do remember that he commented on his moving terabytes of information on a weekly basis. This was during the heyday of the stock market, and he was worth a few hundred mill on paper at the time, with his stake in Celera. This was also before he made public that one of the sources for his human genome sequencing project was him. Surprise surprise, even the brightest among us can be guilty of some vanity.
Posted by johnvu at May 31, 2003 02:25 PM