Human Genome Project Complete

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."

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They want this information to be freely available

[Reinout]

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).

Reinout