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J. Craig Venter
The company J. Craig Venter founded in 1998 to challenge the Human Genome Project ran a data center with 70 terabytes of storage. Venter's latest scheme will fill that in less than one week. To get the new project started Venter has founded a company, raised $70 million, bought two Illumina ($ILMN) HiSeq X Ten systems and set his sights on creating the world's largest sequencing center.
Venter has founded the company--called Human Longevity--with stem cell pioneer Dr. Robert Hariri and X Prize Foundation founder Dr. Peter Diamandis to tap into the potential of Illumina's $1,000 genome-enabling sequencing system. Human Longevity will start off...