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Jamie from Slashdot writes:
``It's the scientific achievment of our generation; what can you say about the mapping of the human genome? But here's a story behind the story. parvati turned us on to this NYT article [1] about James Kent, who wrote the gene assembly program GigAssembler [2] last June. It turns out that, thanks to his code, the public Human Genome Project had actually finished its work three days before the private effort by Celera Genomics – a feather in their cap and a boon to public science. The head of Celera [J. Craig Venter] was `astonished' to learn of this grad student's genius – ten thousand lines of C in a month, and why? – `because of his concern that the genome would be locked up by commercial patents if an assembled sequence was not made publicly available for all scientists to work on.' (The debate over public vs. private science [3] continues to rage; see this Seattle P-I article [4], which discusses among other things the ethics of NDA'ing scientific data produced for profit.)''
References:
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/13/health/13HERO.html?pagewanted=all
2. http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/algo.html
3. http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/project/privatesector.html
4. http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/geno12.shtml
Article at Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/13/0954240
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