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02883aam a2200469Ia 4500 001 05586FD6E76911E1AF1839E46AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120816010357 008 081204r20082007enkaf b 001 0aeng d 020 $a 0670063584 020 $a 9780670063581 020 $a 0141014415 020 $a 9780141014418 020 $a 0143114182 020 $a 9780143114185 035 $a (OCoLC)277006711 040 $a CVU $c CVU $d SILO $d MUU $d SO$ $d BTCTA $d BAKER $d YDXCP $d XFG $d YOM $d UKM $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 082 14 $a B $a B $2 22 100 1 $a Venter, J. Craig. 245 1 $a A life decoded : $b my genome, my life / $c J. Craig Venter. 260 $a London : $b Penguin, $c 2008. 300 $a 390 p., [16] p. of plates : $b ill. ; $c 22 cm. 500 $a "First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin ... 2007"--T.p. verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-374) and index. 505 0 $a Writing 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 businessman -- Flying forward -- The first human genome -- The White House, June 26, 2000 -- Publish and be damned -- Blue planet and new life. 520 $a The story of the man who achieved on eo f 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, 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. 600 10 $a Venter, J. Craig. 650 0 $a Geneticists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Human gene mapping $x History. 650 0 $a DNA $x History. $x History. 600 12 $a Venter, J. Craig. 650 12 $a Genetics $z United States $v Personal Narratives. 650 22 $a Chromosome Mapping $z United States $v Personal Narratives. 650 22 $a Genome, Human $z United States $v Personal Narratives. 650 22 $a Sequence Analysis, DNA $z United States $v Personal Narratives. 941 $a 3 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525040303.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508015219.0 952 $l PMAX975 $d 20191119044210.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=05586FD6E76911E1AF1839E46AFF544E 994 $a Z0 $b IOOInitiate Another SILO Locator Search