Venter Announces $500K Prize for Significant Advances Toward $1,000 Genome
“Just before lunch today at the GSAC conference, Craig Venter stood before the crowd and announced a mouth-watering proposition: a $500,000 Genomic Technology Prize to be awarded by the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation to a person or organization that develops technology ‘to significantly advance’ automated DNA sequencing toward making the $1,000 genome a reality.”