The research institute founded and headed by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., yesterday won the dismissal of a federal lawsuit filed against it by the company he co-founded four years ago to develop and apply large-scale computing and machine learning toward making discoveries intended to revolutionize the practice of medicine. Judge William Q. Hayes of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California sided with the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) by dismissing the lawsuit brought against it by Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), the company Venter co-founded in 2014.