[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • April 13, 2002
    ``Jim Kent was a graduate student in biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), when he wrote the program that allowed the public human genome team to assemble its fragments just before Celera's private, commercial effort. His program ensured that the human genome data would remain in the public domain. Kent wrote the 10,000-line program in a month, because he didn't want to see the genome data locked up by commercial patents.

    ``Tim O'Reilly has called Kent's crucial role in this project `the most significant work of open source development in the past year.' Kent's work illustrates the need to think about more than just open source code; in the scientific community there is a growing awareness of the importance of open data.''

    Full story:
    http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/04/05/kent.html

    Reference by Snowdeal.org.

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