Eugene Myers, Celera's computer wizard, has shown, in the case of Drosophila, that it can.
But Celera's sequencing machines and super-computers are working overtime on this much larger project.
Dr Venter said Celera had filed a preliminary patent application on this particular whole gene.
"Celera is going to be a central, pivotal place for knowledge models, " Broder says.
Certainly, Celera's fortunes have been on the rise since it was founded two years ago.
His killer app in Celera's assembly of the human genome was a technique called shotgun sequencing.
His wife, the geneticist Claire Fraser, had been in charge of TIGR while he ran Celera.
But now Celera swears it is making progress--in the more low-key world of diagnostic testing.
TIGR, which cut its ties with commerce fairly rapidly, Celera is in it for the money.
Compaq emerges as a supercomputing power after its servers help Celera unravel the genetic code.
Celera and Applied Biosystems are both tracking stocks for a larger corporation called Applera .
But Celera will be able to use information from the public genome project to help it.
These findings led Celera to argue that patients with the gene have enhanced response to cholesterol drugs.
Given the iffy track record of gene discoveries, Celera's risk scores will require confirmations in giant studies.
The HGP and Celera both said there were 30, 000 protein-coding genes, a mere one-third of previous estimates.
The question for Celera, however, is not merely whether it made the right choice in picking IBM.
In its hunt for disease genes, Celera is racing against Perlegen Sciences, Decode Genetics and numerous academic labs.
Doubts aside, companies like Roche, Celera, Genomic Health and Clinical Data are racing forward with new gene tests.
After leaving Celera, he returned to his research institute, the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), and created chaos.
Celera went to UCSF researcher Kane and others who had collected DNA samples from hundreds of heart patients.
Now, says John Reynders , vice president of informatics at Celera, it has much more diverse computing needs.
Last week, Celera announced it had delivered 1.2 billion base pairs of the humane genome sequence to its subscribers.
Celera's business plan relies on developing the best databases of medical information, and it needs supercomputers to do that.
Dr Venter said he thinks Celera's tentative approach to patent filings makes sense.
Using these markers, Celera plans to introduce a test next year called the coronary heart disease genetic risk score.
By 2006 Venter was dating Kowalski, who had been the publicist at Celera.
As Craig Venter's Celera Genomics caught fire, Millennium looked like a more business-focused venture, with a clearer plan to profit.
Instead, Celera's business plan involves selling access to the technologies it has developed in order to use the gene sequence.
Gene Myers, Celera's felicitously named software guru, has a set of programs that he believes is up to the task.
Given that, it might be thought wiser for the public project to collaborate with Celera, rather than racing against it.
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