{"id":1193,"date":"2005-05-19T20:56:19","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T00:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2019-10-26T20:57:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T00:57:49","slug":"venter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2005\/05\/19\/venter\/","title":{"rendered":"Venter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m at a speech by J. Craig Venter. My heart is filled with envy, because he\u2019s so damn smart. How smart? Well, he\u2019s making scientific history by sailing the world (in his tax deductible yacht). He takes environmental samples (from the Sargasso sea, for example) and sequences all the DNA he finds. It\u2019s changing our understanding of genomic biology. Now he\u2019s giving a keynote using his travel pictures as slides. He\u2019s very quotable:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBack at the beginning, we had this idea that we had if we couldn\u2019t make a single large machine to sequence the entire genome, we had failed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnce we did drosophila, the rest was really just cranking through it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s one of me, with two Apple guys, in front of the India Gate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC_0738.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1194\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m at a speech by J. Craig Venter. My heart is filled with envy, because he\u2019s so damn smart. How smart? Well, he\u2019s making scientific history by sailing the world (in his tax deductible yacht). He takes environmental samples (from the Sargasso sea, for example)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}