Craig Venter Reflections: Small Genomes

In the early 1990s, Craig Venter left the NIH over disputes around the patenting of ESTs. Investors backed him, but then William Haseltine basically pushed him out of direct operation of Human Genome Sciences (HGS) and Venter went to start The Institute for Genome Research, far better known as TIGR. TIGR would attract an amazing array of talent both wet lab and dry lab - a pattern that Venter had…