Craig Venter

He was the former president and founder of Celera Genomics, which became famous for running a parallel version of the Human Genome Project of its own for commercial purposes, using shotgun sequencing technology in 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Venter

http://www.venterinstitute.org/

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