cford writes "According to Forbes some of the **** company giants are finally realizing that their genetic research is worth more if they give it away. 'Novartis, the Basel, Switzerland, **** 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 **** 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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Biology Goes Open Source
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