TIGR's software is now up to dealing with the entire human genome in a single gulp.
His wife, the geneticist Claire Fraser, had been in charge of TIGR while he ran Celera.
Venter and Fraser began to tussle over the direction of TIGR, and they separated in 2004.
TIGR, which cut its ties with commerce fairly rapidly, Celera is in it for the money.
He would license new genes to Steinberg's firm but only via an institute Steinberg would bankroll: TIGR.
TIGR's contribution is what will go in the machine, and what will be done with the results.
Gene-sequencing machines, the workhorses at TIGR, were now to be shared by all at a new 40, 000-square-foot facility.
After leaving Celera, he returned to his research institute, the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), and created chaos.
He took a select group of TIGR's best and brightest with him, creating hurt feelings among those left behind.
With TIGR, the flow moves in all directions, but particularly down and laterally.
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Ten of her TIGR colleagues are following as full-time faculty members, and most of their staff are coming, too.
In 2006 Venter finally got his wish to absorb TIGR into the J.
What's left of the institution (referred to everywhere as TIGR, like the predator) has been consumed by his new Venter Institute.
Twenty-three of TIGR's 28 top scientists have left, and Venter made what was left of it part of his 500-person J.
The other institutes did merge, but TIGR was left separate and withering.
He has since departed to found The TIGR Center for the Advancement of Genomics, part of The Institute for Genomics Research (TIGR).
Venter founded TIGR in 1992 after leaving the National Institutes of Health for complicated reasons that included a front-page controversy over patenting genes.
TIGR, and Michael Hunkapiller, the president of Perkin-Elmer's applied biosystem division.
"If too many more people leave, then the stench of death will start to permeate this organization, " Fraser-Liggett wrote in a memo to the TIGR faculty.
John Quackenbush, previously a member of TIGR's faculty and a professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, says that the "vanity genome, " which he saw as a drain on resources, was one of the things he protested when the TIGR faculty went to the institute's board to try and preserve Fraser's job.
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