What James Shreeve book focuses on Celera's rivalry with the public HGP?

James Shreeve’s The Genome War focuses on Celera’s rivalry with the publicly funded Human Genome Project. The book follows the scientific, commercial, and political struggle surrounding the race to sequence the human genome.

Celera was created in 1998 under J. Craig Venter and pursued a faster, commercially oriented approach based on whole-genome shotgun sequencing. Its challenge forced the public consortium to confront questions about speed, data access, intellectual property, and whether a reference genome should be treated as a public resource or a commercial asset.

Shreeve followed Venter and the Celera effort for roughly two years while reporting the book. The result is a narrative account of the personalities and institutional conflict behind the public announcement of draft human genome sequences in 2000 and the major scientific publications in 2001.

The Common Thread is a different book, written by John Sulston and Georgina Ferry, and presents an important perspective from the public project. Genome is a title associated with other works, while The Double Helix is James Watson’s account of the discovery of DNA’s structure. None is the canonical answer here.