The Venter Decryption: Biologist decodes his own genome

For the first time, scientists have decoded and published a nearly complete readout of both sets of chromosomes in an individual. The diploid genome, of biologist J. Craig Venter, reveals much more human genetic variation than scientists had expected.

In 2001, two competing projects, one run by the federal government and the other by a private company, announced the sequencing of the human genome.