[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • April 11, 2002
    ``It seems genome announcements customarily come with a bit of a row attached - and so it is with rice.

    ``The Swiss-based Syngenta company publishes an analysis of how it cracked the code of the japonica subspecies of the plant in the journal Science this week, but the data themselves will not be going into the publicly searchable GenBank depository.

    ``Syngenta has refused to put its code in this international data pool because it wants to retain proprietorial control over the fruits of its hard work.

    ``Instead, the data will be dropped in an escrow account controlled by Science and any researchers wanting to mine the code for their own studies will be allowed to do so on a Syngenta website or CD-Rom - provided they accept certain conditions.''

    Full story at BBC News:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1910000/1910889.stm

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