History(cont'd) 1997 Fred Blattner Guy Plunkett, and University of Wisconsin, Madison, colleagues complete the DNA sequence of E coli, 5 Mb 1998 NIH announces a new project to find SNPS Phil Green(pictured) and Brent Ewing of Washington University and colleagues publish a program called phred for automatically interpreting sequencer data. Both phred and its sister program phrap(used for assembling sequences) had been in wide use since 1995 PE Biosystems Inc. introduces the PE Prism 3700 capillary sequencing machine Venter announces a new company named celera and declares that it will sequence the human genome within 3 years for $300 million In response, the Wellcome Trust doubles its support for the HGP to $330 million taking on responsibility for one-third of the sequencingHistory (cont’d) – 1997 Fred Blattner ,Guy Plunkett , and University of Wisconsin, Madison, colleagues complete the DNA sequence of E. coli , 5 Mb – 1998 NIH announces a new project to find SNPs Phil Green (pictured) and Brent Ewing of Washington University and colleagues publish a program called phred for automatically interpreting sequencer data. Both phred and its sister program phrap (used for assembling sequences) had been in wide use since 1995. PE Biosystems Inc. introduces the PE Prism 3700 capillary sequencing machine Venter announces a new company named Celera and declares that it will sequence the human genome within 3 years for $300 million In response, the Wellcome Trust doubles its support for the HGP to $330 million, taking on responsibility for one-third of the sequencing