Celera Genomics Company

Many biological databases (databanks) are embedded with tutorials that make it easy to explore their facilities. There are three sources of biological databases in-house dedicated sources (private and limited for focused projects), databases assembled by companies (mainly fees for services extensive and high-quality but expensive and restrictive such as Celera Genomics and Incyte Genomics), and public databases (such as GenBank, EMBL and DDBJ). An important distinction exists between primary (archival) and secondary (curated) databases. The primary databases represent experimental results with some interpretation (Table 14.11). Their record is the sequence or structure as it was experimentally derived. 

At a press conference presided over by President Bill Clinton, J. Craig Venter of Celera Genomics (a private company) and Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health s Human Genome Research Institute announced that the three billion or so chemical units that make up human dna had been identified. 

In 2000, the door opened on a revolution in our knowledge of DNA. Two research endeavors, one in a for-profit company (Celera Genomics) and one in a not-for-profit consortium (the Human Genome Project) jointly announced their first results in mapping human DNA. The map of human DNA was completed in April 2003. The location of every segment of human DNA had been identified. 

First proposed by James Weber and Eugene Myers before Celera existed and later eagerly adopted by the company. See Weber, J.L., Myers, E.W. Human whole-genome shotgun sequencing. Genome Res. 1997, 7, 401 09. 

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