(IBEA) and the J. Craig Venter Institute Joint Technology Center (JTC) were merged to form the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI).

In 1992, Craig Venter was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He began The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) during the same time and was part of the determination of the human genome. Because of disagreements of how the project was being managed TIGR was excluded from the funding