CHAPTER 13. New Frontiers, Bold Promises

nobody could accuse Leroy Hood of thinking small: Roberts, Leslie. “Leroy Hood: Thinking Big in Seattle.” Science. 8 Apr. 1994. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/264/5156/206.extract

Hood predicted that by 2016: Garrett, Laurie. “The Dots Are Almost Connected....Then What?; Mapping the Human Genetic Code; They’ve Almost Cracked  the Human Genetic Code. That’s the Good News. What Happens After That is the Harder Part.” Los Angeles Times Magazine. 3 Mar. 1996.  http://articles.latimes.com/1996-03-03/magazine/tm-42636_1_human-gene

first complete genome of a free-living organism: Sequencing the genome of Haemophilus influenzae Rd. Genome News Network. http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/resources/timeline/1995_Haemophilus.php

eliminate the need for prior mapping: Roach, Jared C., Boysen, Cecilie, Wang, Kai, Hood, Leroy E. “Pairwise end sequencing: a unified approach to genomic mapping and sequencing.” Genomics. 20 Mar. 1995 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/088875439580219C

smashing: Interview with Nathan Myhrvold at Intellectual Ventures in Bellevue, WA. 27 Nov. 2012

a blockbuster: Fleischmann RD et al. Whole-genome random sequencing and assembly of Haemophilus influenzae Rd. Science. 28 July 1995 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7542800

we used to joke: Interview with Lee Huntsman in Seattle. 26 Nov. 2012

creature of the university: Interview with Maynard Olson at the University of Washington. 29 Nov. 2012

you didn’t need to be in the room five minutes: Interview with Joan Goverman by phone. 9 May 2014

see what we could do in a few years, not a few decades: Haney, Daniel Q. “Michael Milken Fights Cancer.” The Associated Press. 25 Nov. 1995

in the zone: Interview with Stephen Friend at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. 17 Dec. 2012

I’d be shocked: King, Ralph T. Jr. “Gene Machines: An Eclectic Scientist Gives Biotechnology a Fast Assembly Line.” Wall Street Journal. 30 May 1995 Page A1

so unsafe as to be absurd: Church, George M. Draft book foreword sent to the author. 12 June 2014.

willing to listen and learn from us: Interview with Jane Butler Kahle, via email. 9 Sept. 2014

many evenings at school board meetings: Interview with Dana Riley Black at the Institute for Systems Biology. 18 Dec. 2012

the Seattle scientist who has been most energetic: Dietrich, Bill; Long, Katherine; Lilly, Dick; Beason, Tyrone; Houtz, Jolayne. “How Do You Spell Success? S-C-I-E-N-C-E.” The Seattle Times 7 Apr. 1996 http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19960407&slug=2323073

it was kind of a dicey field: Interview with Daniel Kevles by telephone. 3 Nov. 2014

completely spellbound: Interview with Trey Ideker by telephone. 18 Dec. 2012

wasn’t going into a department with Lee: Interview with Alan Aderem at the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle. 3 Jan. 2013

Lee is like the sun: Interview with Roger Perlmutter at the Institute for Systems Biology 24 Jan. 2013

tragedy struck: Vacationing UW Medical School Dean, Wife and Guides Perish in Nepal. December 1996. UW Columns.  https://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/dec96/fialkow.html