088 Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 37° 55 55.37 N, 122° 1 20.1 W Gattaca The Joint Genome Institute's Production Genomics Facility in Walnut Creek, California, doesn't look like ground zero of a biological revolution, but set back from leafy Mitchell Drive is a 5,600-square-meter industrial building where a large section of the human genome was sequenced. In 1997, the U.S. Department of Energy set up the Joint Genome Institute to bring together work on DNA sequencing performed by Department of Energy laboratories around the country. The space leased in Walnut Creek was used to