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Craig Venter Founds Celera Genomics

5/1998

In May 1998 Craig Venter founded Celera Genomics, with Applera Corporation (Applied Biosystems) in Rockville, Maryland, to sequence and assemble the human genome.

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Computing in Medicine & Biology / Bioinformatics

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Medicine

Heredity / Molecular Biology / Genomics

Biology / Evolution