J. Craig Venter Institute

[5][6] The political, personal, and ethical conflicts of the race between the public and private sectors have been notable.

[2][3][4][7][8][9][10][11][12][excessive citations] In 1995, the precursor to the J. Craig Venter Institute, TIGR, determined the sequence of Haemophilus influenzae, Mycoplasma genitalium, and Methanococcus jannaschii.

TIGR developed the gene finder GLIMMER and the sequence alignment program MUMmer.

[18] In June 2000, Venter founded The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG), a think tank for studying the ethics of human genetics and stem cells research.

[23] In April 2022 Venter sold the La Jolla facility to the University of California, San Diego for $25 million.

The university, which already has a very strong genomics program, hopes to absorb most of the institute's faculty and its current research grants.