Biology Goes Open Source

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 12, 2007 @08:06AM from the models-that-work-from-time-to-time dept.

cford writes "According to Forbes some of the drug company giants are finally realizing that their genetic research is worth more if they give it away. 'Novartis, the Basel, Switzerland, drug giant, has helped uncover which of the 20,000 genes identified by the Human Genome Project are likely to be associated with diabetes. But rather than hoard this information, as drug firms have traditionally done, it is making it available for free on the World Wide Web. "It will take the entire world to interpret these data," says Novartis research head Mark Fishman. "We figure we will benefit more by having a lot of companies look at these data than by holding it secret."'"

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BioCrusty losers give away information by Anonymous Coward · 2007-02-12 08:31 · Score: -1, Flamebait

The web is the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. Their potent allies in this pursuit include Google and Yahoo. Someone like Forbes investor Bono or world famous philanthropist Bill Gates could be making money off all this information. The human genome contains intellectual property belonging to SCO.

Dan Lyons

Look you worthless hippies, this is my most coherent article yet