[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • April 7, 2008
    An article by Bernadette Toner:

    ``As Accelrys prepares to retire its GCG software package at the end of June, a petition has been circulating through the bioinformatics community calling for the company to release the GCG source code into the public domain to ensure continued support for a suite of tools that has been available for more than 25 years.

    ``However, an Accelrys official told BioInform this week that the company is instead looking for a commercial partner to take over the package because it `legally cannot do what the petition is asking us to do' – a situation resulting from the patchwork of intellectual property surrounding the GCG suite, which was originally developed at the University of Wisconsin in the early 1980s and then sold through a series of commercial entities.''

    Full story:
    http://www.bioinform.com/issues/12_14/features/146106-1.html

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