Venter, J. Craig, 12/29/99 8:41 AM -0500, Re: T0m0rr0w's meeting 1
From: "Venter, J. Craig"
To: "‘Collins, Francis (NHGRI)°"
"'Arnie Levine (B-mai1)'"
"White, Tony"
"'whitetl@pe—corp.com'"
Cc: “Varmus, Harold (OD)"
"Bob Waterston (E-mail)'
“'[email protected]'"
“Gilman, Paul J."
Subject: RE: Tomorrow‘s meeting
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 08:41:45 -0500
Francis,
As we discussed yesterday afternoon we have serious concerns about several aspects of your
proposed agenda and "Shared Principals". I do not feel that it would be productive at this time to
work from those documents.
This is the first face to face and first formal discussion concerning any interactions between
the public genome effort and the Celera effort to sequence the hu an genome. There have been 18
months of acrimony carried out in the world press with serious attacks on our science and business
strategies primarily by members of your consortium. Some of these have been in the past few weeks.
while there has been an improvement we collectively have a long way to qo.
Our experience with Gerry Rubin and the Drosophila comm nity has been the best scientific
collaboration that I and my colleagues have undertaken. This very positive process has made us more
willing to consider interactions with the public effort on the human genome, however it is a little
late in the game to achieve a Drosophila equivalent.
We would like to take things a step at a time. For today's meeting I suggest the following
agenda.
1) Introductions
2) Discussion of cooperative interactions:
a)t0 improve the perception of the human genome efforts
b)to stop the press attacks on our business
c)to see if publication of the respective genome efforts could be coordinated
3) Should more extensive scientific collaborations (e.g., a joint publication) be considered?
Regards, Craig
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