NEW YORK--Craig Venter, president of Celera Genomics and founder of the Institute for Genomic Research, captivated an audience of investors and other members of the financial community with predictions about genomics industry developments at a meeting of the New York Venture Group here April 22. Venter told the Wall Street crowd that genomics will transform the agriculture, health, chemical, and energy industries and will become a major economic driving force of the next century.