Celera Opens Up DNA Database

greenplato writes "Thirty billion base pairs from the sequences of humans, mice, and rats that were available only by subscription to Celera's DNA database are being put into the public domain. Celera will donate this information to a 'federally run database,' presumably GenBank. Francis Collins, head of the National Human Genome Research Institute, notes that 'data just wants to be public.' Stories in BusinessWeek and The New York Times."

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Re:Shouldn't that be

[NanoGator]

"Shouldn't that be "data want to be free?" :)"

Here in the USA, no. Yet another reason why it doesn't pay to be a grammar nazi.