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Human Genome Project Complete

Posted by chrisd on from the get-yours-now dept.

nilepoc writes "The Human Genome project is finally done. Done being a relative term, due to the variability of DNA. 'You can think of this as the end of the high-throughput phase of human sequencing. The fact that it's yielded up 99% of the gene-containing DNA at this level of accuracy means that almost everybody who is looking for answers from the genome will find it in the most final form that they ever could have dreamed of,' Collins said in a BioMedCentral Article. Let the patenting begin."

12 comments

  1. Exactly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Exactly, let the Zionists sell the code now

  2. What will be the first high value use ? by 2sleep2type · · Score: 1

    Now all this work has been done what do people think will be the first high value use. Both in $ and as a life enrichment

  3. holy crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    anyone else scared? we've learned ourselves. i'm not sure /why/ this scares me -- only that knowing every little thing about what makes us...us, allows us to change that. (let's say your baby was born mentally retarded.. well we can fix that!) is that really the best thing? changing what we were meant to be?


    on a lighter subject

    oh no! i'm sorry mr. conner. your son will be... an open source developer. fortuantely we can get rid of all GNU genes using a great product called microsoft windows.

  4. To the last poster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Don't you see? The zionistic pigs that are going to SELL and PATENT the code are going to SELL what YOU are, that's why you're scared and you're scared HONESTLY.

    Death to the SELLERS of Human Life.

  5. They want this information to be freely available by Reinout · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you read this other article you get the distinct impression that scientists in this field want to make the results of these big key reseaches freely available. They even say in these changing times, probably referring to the increased expected opennes prompted by the internet. (And possibly open source as well).

    You see the same "changing times" with the journals. In my research field they found out that a paper that's freely available on the internet gets quoted at least three times as often as a paper that's "locked away" in a "proprietary" journal... (Couldn't find the link I was searching for for that figure, sorry).

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  6. Science by press-release by RobotWisdom · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I read the science headlines every day at NewsHub and it's distressing to see how fake a lot of this 'news' is-- if a scientist craves publicity, there are certain themes they can appeal to that the press seems to get excited about for no good scientific reason (the oldest anything, black holes, asteroid impacts, etc).

    I'd be interested to know exactly how different this 'really really complete' genome is from the fakety-fake 'complete' genome they announced a few years back.

    The rumor then was that it was the egomaniac Venter's own DNA they were using, so calling it 'the' human genome is another big lie-- one of the most interesting uses for the data is to cross-compare different ethnicities (and different species) and use this to reconstruct the human family tree. So the fact that one person's genome is the first to be sequenced will quickly become insignificant to the overall picture.

    1. Re:Science by press-release by AndyAMPohl · · Score: 1

      Scientists don't usually crave anything but discovery and new science. Not press releases. The reason there is an announcement now, is because years ago there was a meeting of leaders of the mighty sequencing centers: Sanger, Wash-U, etc. and also prominent scientists involved. Francis Collins mentioned "Hey wouldn't it be cool if we had this done in April 2003. 50 years after the Watson/Crick DNA structure paper was published in Nature." James Watson was in the room apparently, and loved the idea. So hence a deadline was set. Finish your chromosomes guys! So I guess there is still something like 34 megabases of gaps. Maybe that's in telomeres/centromeres. I don't know.

      As for Venter's DNA: Celera used his DNA in their whole-genome-shotgun sequencing project. The identities of the people used in public sequencing project (the subject of the recent announcement) are unknown. They are all male. That's all that's known.

    2. Re:Science by press-release by AndyAMPohl · · Score: 1

      Also, in June 2000 when President Clinton had the big party for the genome, and then in early 2001 when the genome paper was published, the genome then was in a crudely complete state. That's why they called it a "draft sequence". The reason for the big celebration was that it was finally actually usable for scientists so it was made available to them.

      Andy

  7. prior art by Darkstorm · · Score: 1

    Now if they plan on patenting genes, wouldn't there be a prior art issue? I've had these genes all my life...so have most of the rest of you. I am curious how one person/group/company, can patent something that belongs to us all.

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  8. WhaT?! by termos · · Score: 1

    Gnome did WHAT?

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  9. Re:They want this information to be freely availab by keramida · · Score: 3, Informative
    In my research field they found out that a paper that's freely available on the internet gets quoted at least three times as often as a paper that's "locked away" in a "proprietary" journal... (Couldn't find the link I was searching for for that figure, sorry).

    I believe this paper of Steve Lawrence is what you were looking for :-)

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  10. offtopic: citation paper by Reinout · · Score: 1

    Exactly the right paper, thanks.

    Reinout

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