It's a big day for J. Craig. (Or is every day a big day when you're J. Craig? We're not sure.) In a paper published in PLoS Biology on which Venter is senior author, scientists describe the microbiota metagenomic study that emerged from the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling expedition. This paper led to a lead story in today's Wall Street Journal featuring Venter as a "brash biologist" and a "seafaring scientist." The article quotes nonparticipant Douglas Bartlett, a marine microbiologist at the University of California, San Diego, as saying, "This is the largest DNA sequence ever obtained, and the magnitude of what's being done is entirely unparalleled."
The Life Aquatic with Craig Venter
Mar 13, 2007
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