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Celera Opens Up DNA Database

Posted by timothy on from the time-to-meet-the-ceo dept.

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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  1. One problem... by symbolic · · Score: 0, Redundant


    Who holds the patent for "viewing alpha sequences comprised of the letters G, A, T, and C, superimposed on a dual helix-shaped structure...on the internet"?