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Dog Genome Sequenced

Posted by michael on from the man's-best-friend dept.

virtualXTC writes "There is an article in Nature today about Shadow's (Craig Venter's dog) sequence being released and freely available to the public (a rare trend in biotech). Craig Venter is generally regarded as the person responsible for getting the human genome sequenced years ahead of schedule using his own DNA and shotgun sequencing approach."

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  1. No. by El · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would suspect that most gene sequences have been around long enough to be in the public domain. And you can't patent them either; God has produced several examples of prior art. Plus, the chances of anyone producing _exactly_ the same gene sequence as your pet are pretty small, unless you allow them to clone it, no?

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  2. the whole genome? by elmegil · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They interviewed him on NPR yesterday and I thought he said he'd only gotten about 80% of the genome actually mapped.

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