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" 2000: President Bill Clinton declares a tie in the race to map the human genome, giving credit to both Venter and his publicly funded rival, Francis Collins. Far from being finished, Venter considers it &amp;quot;the starting line&amp;quot; for the future of medicine. 2001: The Institute for Genomic Research, founded by Venter, helps sequence the genome of the anthrax strain mailed in the attacks that killed five people\u2014 evidence that eventually leads the FBI to the source.  2004: Sorcerer II, Venter&amp;#039;s 95-foot sailboat, leaves Halifax, Nova Scotia, on a two-year circum\u00ADnavigation of the globe in search of new microbial species for DNA sequencing.  2005: Venter starts the for-profit Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI) to work on solving global problems, such as fossil-fuel dependence, environmental degradation and disease epidemics.  2007: He establishes another first by mapping the 6-billion-letter code of his own &amp;quot;diploid&amp;quot; genome (DNA from both chromosome pairs, one from each parent), discovering a genetic predisposition for blue eyes, antisocial behavior and heart disease. 2008: Using a computer code and four bottles of chemicals, Venter&amp;#039;s lab creates the largest man-made DNA structure by synthesizing and assembling the 582,970-base-pair genome of a bacterium.  2009: He announces SGI will receive $300 million from Exxon Mobil to engineer algae cells that turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into biofuel. 2010: Venter&amp;#039;s team uses a synthetic genome to boot up the world&amp;#039;s first man-made bacterial cell. Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 becomes the first living organism to have its own website encoded in its chromosomes. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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