Celera
| Celera Corporation | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | May 1998 |
| Seat | Alameda , United States |
| management | Kathy Ordoñez, CEO |
| Number of employees | 551 (2009) |
| sales | $ 167.1 million (2009) |
| Branch | biotechnology |
| Website | www.celera.com |
The Celera Corporation is a US-based company, which in May 1998 by the PE Corporation (now Applera Corporation) and Craig Venter was founded, a genome researcher and founder of the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). The company was founded to gather information about genomes through DNA sequencing and to commercialize it.
In 1998, Craig Venter announced that he wanted to decode the entire human genome faster and cheaper than the Human Genome Project . The shotgun method should be used for sequencing . In 2000 the preliminary results were finally published, according to which 96% of the human genome had been deciphered.
On May 17, 2011, Celera was taken over by Quest Diagnostics .
Genomes sequenced by Celera Genomics
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Celera Corporation: Annual Report 2009. (PDF) Retrieved on April 21, 2010 (English).
- ^ Quest Diagnostics Successfully Completes Acquisition of Celera , at www.ir.questdiagnostics.com , accessed January 20, 2016
- ↑ Newspaper article from the Handelsblatt dated October 12, 2000 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
