Venter's short cut

The private sector has made an end run in the genome sequencing game, coming up with an organism's entire sequence using a short-cut method that the government had refused to fund.

Human Genome Sciences Inc. will have full rights to commercialize the discovery by former NIH researcher Craig Venter of the full gene sequence of Haemophilus influenzae, a microbe with 1749 genes. The sequence was announced at the meeting of the American Society for Microbiology...