In the race to map the human genome, Craig Venter is credited with speeding up the discovery of the whole human genome by years. Venter's approach was cheaper, more accurate, and much faster than other mapping methods. Though his firm, Celera Genomics, shared credit with the Human Genome Project, Venter's method was undoubtedly the catalyst for the record-breaking efforts. Venter has proved to be a passionate personality in the world of science, funding his own research and making as many allies as enemies.