The Sorcerer is dead (opens in new tab)

J Craig Venter, the grit that delivered the pearl of the human genome in 2000 rather than 2010, has blinked out at a hospital in San Diego from side-effects of his treatment for cancer. In another world, with different players, he'd have been a candidate for a Nobel gong from any of three different projects ESTs, HGP, or GOS – so fight me.He first came annoyingly across my horizon in 1991 when he increased the number of known human gene sequences by 50% through the invention of ESTs expressed...