What is Celera?
{{Infobox company| |company_name = Celera Corporation |company_logo = |company_type = Subsidiary |slogan = |foundation = 1998 |location = [[Alameda, California]], [[USA]] |key_people = William G. Green, Chairman, Kathy P Ordonez, President, [[Craig Venter]], Founder |num_employees = 554<ref name=zenobank>{{cite web |url=http://www.zenobank.com/index.php?symbol=CRA&page=quotesearch |title=Company profile for Celera Group (CRA) |access-date=2008-10-22}}</ref> |industry = Technology |products = Scientific & Technical Instruments |owner = |revenue = |homepage = [http://www.celera.com www.celera.com] |}} '''Celera''' is a [[corporation]] registered in [[California]], U.S.A. It was founded to discover and sell information about [[DNA]] [[sequence analysis]], especially the [[human genome]]. The company is now wholly owned by [[Quest Diagnostics]], a corporation which runs [[medical|clinical]] [[laboratory]] services. Celera's first president, [[Craig Venter]] and [[Hamilton Smith]] were in charge of the original science. There was competition between Celera and the publicly funded [[Human Genome Project]], which got much comment.<ref>Shreeve, James 2004. ''The Genome War: how Craig Venter tried to capture the code of life and save the world''. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0-375-40629-8</ref><ref>[[John Sulston|Sulston, John]] and Ferry, Georgina 2002. ''The common thread: a story of science, politics, ethics and the human genome''. Joseph Henry. {{ISBN|0-309-08409-1}}</ref><ref>Rabinow, Paul and Dan-Cohen, Talia 2004. ''A machine to make the future: biotech chronicles''. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. {{ISBN|0-691-12050-1}}</ref> Eventually, they agreed on a certain amount of co-operation. == References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:Genetics]] [[Category:Companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area]] [[Category:Alameda, California]] [[Category:1998 establishments in California]]