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The triumphant memoir of the man behind one of the greatest feats in scientific history
Of all the scientific achievements of the past century, perhaps none can match the deciphering of the human genetic code, both for its technical brilliance and for its implications for our future. In A Life Decoded, J. Craig Venter traces his rise from an uninspired student to one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in science today. Here, Venter relates the unparalleled drama of the quest to decode the human genomea goal he predicted he could achieve years earlier and more cheaply than the government-sponsored Human Genome Project, and one that he fulfilled in 2001. A thrilling story of detection, A Life Decoded is also a revealing, and often troubling, look at how science is practiced today.
A Life Decoded
Introduction
1. Writing My Code
2. University of Death
3. Adrenaline Junkie
4. Starting Over in Buffalo
5. Scientific Heaven, Bureaucratic Hell
6. Big Biology
7. TIGR Cub
8. Gene Wars
9. Shotgun Sequencing
10. Institutional Divorce
11. Sequencing the Human
12. Mad Magazine and Destructive Businessmen
13. Flying Forward
14. The First Human Genome
15. The White House, June 26, 2000
16. Publish and Be Damned
17. Blue Planet and New Life
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
[Venter is] not just trying to understand how life works; hes trying to make it work for him, and for us.
The Atlantic
[The] media has called Venter many things: maverick, publicity hound, risk-taker, brash, controversial, genius, manic, rebellious, visionary, audacious, arrogant, feisty, determined, provocative. His autobiography shows that they are all justified.
Nature
A Life Decoded offers a window into the life and mind of a scientist who . . . has indisputably become an extraordinary figure.
Science
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