March 12, 2004
The latest from ETC Group. J. Craig Venter, the genomics mogul and scientific wizard who recently created a unique living organism from scratch in a matter of days, is searching for pay-dirt in the biodiversity-rich Galapagos Islands. From his 95-ft. yacht, Sorcerer II, Venter is hop-scotching around the globe collecting microbial diversity from gene-rich seas and shores every 200 miles.
J. Craig Venter, the genomics mogul and scientific wizard who recently created a unique living organism from scratch in a matter of days
Do you have a link to this? I googled, and the only relevant thing I got, was an announcement from Dec 99 that he was going to do it.
Gyan: here
For information that are about making life from scratch and not Dr. Venter's boat, this looks good. More here.
From fork's link:
"It's almost hyperbole," said David M. Karl, a professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii who was not involved in the work. "How can you imagine one sample having a million new genes and proteins that we don't know anything about?"
Um, is this a tactful scientific way of saying "bullshit"?
Venter does have a history of making grandiose claims that can't quite be substantiated (e.g. his claim to have sequenced 99% of the human genome was never verified, as most of the data was never released). On the Sargasso Sea project, this Nature article, from last April, seems balanced and informative; it describes the project as "exciting" but also includes a few sceptical voices.
And all this time, I thought Venter was just a character in this excellent story arc from the online strip Goats.
I particularly recommend this strip from the series.
Update
Yooseph et al. report on the 6.12 million new proteins uncovered from 7.7 million GOS sequences by using a novel sequence clustering approach. This nearly doubles the number of known proteins.
http://www.venterinstitute.org/press/news/news_2007_03_13.php
Um, hello? FPP?
Whooo. Crikey.
Yeah. FPP.
Americans are god. And we did not believe them.
Yeah, someone FPP this already. Lazy bastards.
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