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Control # 1 hbl99020827
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Date 5 20220216134053.0
Fixed Data 8 070810s2007 nyuaf b 001 0aeng
LC Card 10    $a 2007033348
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LC Call 50 00 $aQH31.V385$bA3 2007
Dewey Class 82 00 $a576.5092$aB$222
ME:Pers Name 100 $aVenter, J. Craig.
Title 245 12 $aA life decoded :$bmy genome, my life /$cJ. Craig Venter.
Imprint 260    $aNew York :$bViking,$c2007.
Phys Descrpt 300    $a390 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [361]-374) and index.
Abstract 520    $aThe story of the man who achieved one of the greatest feats of our era--the mapping of the human genome. After nearly flunking out of high school, Venter went to Vietnam, where the life and death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest in science and medicine. In 1984 he joined the National Institutes of Health, introduced novel techniques for rapid gene discovery, and left in 1991 to form his own nonprofit genomics research center, where he sequenced the first genome in history in 1995. In 1998 he announced that he would successfully sequence the human genome years sooner, and for far less money, than the government-sponsored Human Genome Project would--a prediction he kept in 2001. The tale involves as much politics (personal and political) as science. He also describes the other startling projects he has conducted since.--From publisher description.
Note:Content 505 $aWriting my code -- University of death -- Adrenaline junkie -- Starting over in Buffalo -- Scientific heaven, bureaucratic hell -- Big biology -- TIGR cub -- Gene wars -- Shotgun sequencing -- Institutional divorce -- Sequencing the human -- Mad magazine and destructive businessmen -- Flying forward -- The first human genome -- The White House, June 26, 2000 -- Publish and be damned -- Blue planet and new life.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aVenter, J. Craig.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aGeneticists$zUnited States$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aHuman gene mapping$xHistory.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aDNA$xAnalysis$xHistory.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aVenter, J. Craig.
Genre/Form 655  7 $aAutobiographies.$2lcgft