nasdaq cra industry technology founded 1998 headquarters alameda california united states key people william g. green chairman kathy p ordonez president craig venter founder products scientific & technical instruments number of employees 554 1 website www.celera.com celera is a subsidiary of quest diagnostics which focuses on genetic sequencing and related technologies . it was founded in 1998 as a business unit of applera spun off into an independent company in 2008 and finally acquired by quest diagnostics in 2011 . 2 contents 1 history 2 genomes sequenced by celera genomics 3 references 4 external links history edit originally headquartered in rockville maryland relocated to alameda california it was established in may 1998 by pe corporation later renamed to applera with dr. j. craig venter from the institute for genomic research tigr as its first president . while at tigr venter and hamilton smith led the first successful effort to sequence an entire organism s genome that of the haemophilus influenzae bacterium . celera was formed for the purpose of generating and commercializing genomic information . its stock is a tracking stock of applera along with the tracking stock of applera s larger applied biosystems group business unit . celera sequenced the human genome at a fraction of the cost of the public project approximately 3 billion of taxpayer dollars versus about 300 million of private funding . however a significant portion of the human genome had already been sequenced when celera entered the field and thus celera did not incur any costs with obtaining the existing data which was freely available to the public from genbank . celera s use of the shotgun strategy spurred the public hgp to change its own strategy leading to a rapid acceleration of the public effort . critics of initial efforts by celera genomics to hold back data from sections of genome they sequenced for commercial exploitation felt that it would retard progress in science as a whole . these critics pointed to the open access policy for gene sequences from the publicly funded human genome project . later the company changed their policy and made their sequences available for non commercial use but set a maximum threshold for amount of sequence data that a researcher could download at any given time . the rise and fall of celera as an ambitious competitor of the human genome project is the main subject of the book the genome war by james shreeve who followed venter around for two years in the process of writing the book . a view from the public effort s side is that of nobel laureate sir john sulston in his book the common thread a story of science politics ethics and the human genome . anthropologist paul rabinow also based his 2005 book a machine to make a future on celera . genomes sequenced by celera genomics edit eukaryotes drosophila melanogaster fruit fly human 3 anopheles gambiae mosquito mouse 4 prokaryotes haemophilus influenzae references edit company profile for celera group cra . retrieved 2008 10 22 . https www.celera.com celera pr 1305673632 quest diagnostics successfully completes acquisition of celera may 17 2011 . venter jc ; et al. 2001 . the sequence of the human genome pdf . science . 291 5507 1304 1351 . doi 10.1126 science .1058040 . pmid 11181995 . newspaperarticle from handelsblatt 2000 10 12 external links edit company website prepared statement of craig venter of celera venter discusses celera s progress in deciphering the human genome sequence and its relationship to healthcare and to the federally funded human genome project . u.s. national institutes of health website for the human genome research institute retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title celera corporation & oldid 723763797 categories research support companiescompanies formerly listed on nasdaqcompanies based in alameda californialife sciences industry navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages catal deutschespa olfran aisitalianomagyar simple englisht rk e edit links this page was last modified on 5 june 2016 at 02 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view