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Newspaper articles from Science Magazine, LA Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe and Inquirer, reporting Dr. Craig Venter's success in sequencing the human genome before NIH. In addition to the articles, there is correspondence between Francis Collins and Mark Guyer from NHGRI to collaborate on a way to tell the press that the sequencing phase for the Celera strategy is different and shorter from NHGRI's.

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Newspaper articles reporting on the rivalry between Celera Genomics and NHGRI that was preventing a collaboration between the public and private organizations. The articles report that Celera wrote a letter to NHGRI claiming to be open to collaboration.

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Documents regarding the agreement between the Berkley Drosphila Genome Project and Celera to sequence the Fruit Fly Genome. Documents include signed Memorandum of Understanding with Francis Collins, J. Craig Venter, Marion Lentz, and Gerald Rubin, along with correspondence between Mark Guyer, Francis Collins, and Adam Felsenfeld regarding the construction of the memorandum.

Scope and Contents Documents regarding some of the complications that come with the Celera and NHGRI collaborations. This includes the efforts of Celera and NHGRI to meet their submission goal to Science at the same time on July 15th. Francis also reached out to Craig Venter after genome centers such as St. Louis and Santa Cruz received e-mails from Celera's legal department about hosting their data on Celera's site. The genome centers contacted Francis out of concern, wanting some assurances that the source...

Scope and Contents The final draft of a Memorandum of Understanding between PE Corporation (NY) Through the Celera Genomics Group and National Cancer Institute A Participating Institute of the National Institutes of Health in June 2001. NIH scientists hoped to obtain access to the Celera mouse and human databases. In response, the NCI made arrangements that would enable individual PIs to purchase annual subscriptions. The agreement would allow researchers within the entire NIH system access to Celera's...

Scope and Contents Documents regarding collaborations between genome centers, NHGRI, and Celera regarding a special issue publication in Science magazine. This includes a memo from Eric Lander to Barbara Jasny, Katrina Kelner, Floyd Bloom, and Donald Kennedy regarding Restrictions on Use of Information. Eric Lander was trying to decide whether an author publishing an article in Science magazine may require that readers execute a contractual license agreement before the information reported in the paper. He had...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Francis Collins, Craig Venter, Ari Patrinos, and Lynn Holland regarding a collaborative work in Science- particularly a side feature of a diagram of map-based sequencing vs. whole genome shotgun as well as diagrams highlighting some of the most useful applications of having the sequence in hand. The goal was to have more art and symbols rather than facts or data details from either of their sequencing papers. The applications included The Genome Landscape (genes, repeats,...

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Agenda for the Sixth International Strategy Meeting on Human Genome Sequencing created by NIH, the US Department of Energy, and the Wellcome Trust and Action items for non-G5 centers. Also included is images of analysis of GSC contigs in finished sequence, and sequencing production figures.

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Documents regarding the Genome Paper draft from NHGRI. The correspondence involves Eric Lander and Francis Collins encouraging the staff to focus on their draft of the manuscript rather than the dispute between Science Magazine and Celera. NHGRI reserved their right to take their manuscript to Nature Magazine of the dispute was not resolved. Documents include a draft of the manuscript with handwritten notes, and e-mail correspondence.