Sad to hear about the death of Craig Venter, the key driver behind the rapid sequencing of the human genome in the late 90s (and a lot of cool synthetic biology since). The spoof article below reflects my brief view of the relationship between Venter and the Human Genome Project academic leaders.1/n
Jonathan EisenReposting this from April 1, 2007 in honor of Craig Venter. I did this as an April Fool's joke - sharing it as a PDF. I got stressed when I found out Craig had seen it and knew it was by me. But he loved it and said it was OK to share it more widely. So then I posted it on the web.