But whereas the HGP method sequences small sections of DNA separately before putting the pieces of the jigsaw together, Celera's technique attempts to assemble the entire genome in one go. We did it because we believed that probably the claim that the Celera method would work on its own was false. What we can say today is that we were right. They failed by their own standards. Dr Venter today denied that he was limiting scientists' access to the genome data produced by his company, saying that the data is freely available to scientists as long as there is no attempt at a commercial gain from Celera data.
Most reputable scientists dealing with both data sets know that our data is clearly superior.