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Years Of Human Genome Data Lost In UCSC Fire

Posted by timothy on from the no-backups-at-ben-stein's-alma-mater dept.

dsavitsk links to a New York Times article which reports that several years of data related to the human genome project have been lost in a fire at the University of California at Santa Cruz, seemingly with no backup.

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  1. Question- has foul play been ruled out? by gtwreck · · Score: 1, Troll

    Who stands to gain the most by a setback in the Human Genome Project? I'm not up on all the details but aren't there several corporations that are trying to "finish" first so they can patent the data before it is released into the public domain? If this is the case then it would be in best interest to slow down the competition...

    Perhaps someone can shed some light on this?

    Just an idea.