Unnatural Selection: chapter 12

Craig Venter (about whom I blogged here and here) is central in this chapter. Below are facts and links.

• His pet project: The Institute for Genetic Research (TIGR, pronounced 'tiger').
• His method for sequencing the entire human genome as fast as possible: men and machines.
• His goal: have the sequence data as public as possible.
• A use of those sequences: back-translate into proteins to make new medicines.
• Genetic tests, as usual, come up, with risks.
• TIGR is technically nonprofit, but others love to make money.

Now go look at those databases, O readers of this aspiring biologist's blog.