Correspondence with NHGRI staff regarding a letter sent to both J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins from Science. Because of the media's attention to the competitive "race" between the Human Genome Project and Celera, and the data reaching public news outlets instead of a peer reviewed journal, there was a risk of the collapse of collegiality that could be detrimental to the science community, according to Science. Therefore, the journal hoped to publish the findings of HGP and Celera in one single Science issue, and encouraged both parties not to give negative feedback about one another to the press. Documents include this letter, along with correspondence with Francis Collins, Mike Dexter, Michael Morgan, Martin Bobrow, and John Sulston. Francis, Michael, Mike, Martin, and John drafted a letter to send to Science out of concern that they had not seen Celera's data yet, and they did not want this collaboration to prevent HGP from releasing their data without restrictions. Francis was hesitant about sending the letter because he had been told from very high people not to do anything that would look like an attempt to stop Celera from publishing their data. Documents also include an article from The Scientist from March 2000 warning the dangers of bypassing Peer Reviews and taking scientific data straight to news outlets. In the article, Francis Collins called this "regrettable" and suggested that scientists were doing so in the genomic field because the findings were perceived as having business value.