2012 02 May Craig Venter interview
Date
2013-07-16
Contributors
Maxson, Kathryn
Cook-Deegan, Robert
Ankeny, Rachel
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Craig Venter, telephone interview by Kathryn Maxson, Rachel Ankeny (from Adelaide,
AU), and Robert Cook-Deegan, conducted from Durham, NC, 27 July 2012. Craig Venter
began working at the NIH in 1984, where he helped develop expressed sequence tagging
(EST) for the rapid identification of genes. In 1992, Venter founded The Institute
for Genomic Research (TIGR), where together with Mark Adams he sequenced the first
free-living organism genome, Haemophilus influenzae, and also received funds to participate
in the HGP. In the early 1990s, Venter became embroiled in a public controversy surrounding
gene patenting when the NIH attempted to file patent applications on thousands of
ESTs discovered and sequenced in his laboratory. This controversy extended to Venter’s
involvement with Human Genome Sciences (HGS), a company that planned to claim patent
rights for many ESTs sequenced by TIGR. Ultimately, the controversy contributed to
the rapid data-sharing ethos of the HGP. In 1998, Venter founded Celera Genomics with
the purpose of sequencing the human using a rival method to that of the HGP. His team’s
2001 publication of the human genome in Science appeared the same week as the HGP
publication in Nature. Venter, the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of the J. Craig Venter
Institute (JCVI), continues to contribute to both genomics and synthetic biology.
This transcript is available beginning 1 July 2014. Keywords: Human Genome Project,
HGP, interview, Bermuda Principles, Bermuda Accord, International Strategy Meetings
on Human Genome Sequencing, data sharing, science policy, genomics, genome, genome
sequence, genetics, DNA sequence, DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, NIH, National Institutes
of Health, DOE, Department of Energy, Expressed sequence tags, ESTs, The Institute
for Genomic Research, TIGR, Human Genome Sciences, HGS, Haemophilus influenzae, Celera
Genomics, whole genome shotgun sequencing, WGS, J. Craig Venter Institute, JCVI, Craig
Venter.
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