The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) was a non-profit private research center that J. Craig Venter founded in 1992. The institute conducted significant research on the genomes of many microorganisms, including that of Haemophilus influenzae, which was the first genome of a free-living organism to be fully sequenced. In 2006, TIGR was one of the organizations that merged to become the J. Craig Venter Institute.