Instead, the story of Sir John's work on the international human genome project is portrayed through his gene structure.

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Dr Venter, a veteran of biotechnological scraps ranging from gene patenting to the private human-genome project, has been interested in bioenergy for a long time.

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Then, using gene-location data from the Human Genome Project, they can see which nearby genes are likely, if they malfunction, to lead to the disease.

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But rather than using nets and chloroform, their tools are the high-speed gene-sequencing machines developed for the Human Genome Project.

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In 1990, when the human-genome project began, everybody thought they knew what a gene was.

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The first science project earmarked for Blue Gene is to model folding of human proteins.

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Love insists that Hyseq has a unique gene-finding technology that will help it discover genes that have been missed both by other gene database companies and by the U.S. government-funded Human Genome Project.

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That group had isolated the gene for Huntington's disease in 1983, which paved the way for the human genome project.

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Twenty-two years ago Francis Collins, who would go on to head the Human Genome Project and run the National Institutes of Health, was part of a team that found the gene that, when mutated, caused cystic fibrosis, a deadly childhood disease in which the lungs fill with mucus and the pancreas does not make digestive enzymes.

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