Craig Venter and his team were the first to decode the entire human genome. Since then he has been a pioneer in the new field of genomics. In 2003 he and his team spent a year sampling and mapping the ocean's newly discovered biodiversity. Cataloging and decoding the genes was finished in 2006 and it was during this research that he took a break to give this talk to the TED conference in 2005. He shares his discoveries one of which are the 2,000 photoreceptor genes found in the Sargasso Sea. He talks about the potential of environmental genomics to monitor the safety of air, water and offshore drilling, and then ends with his vision for engineered species that can replace the petrochemical industry by creating clean energy.
Craig Venter: A voyage of DNA, genes and the sea
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