Re: Patenting/copyrighting genetic info, free availability of genetic codes

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From: Mitchell Isaacs
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:00

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"Cory C. Albrecht" <coryalbrecht@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> With all the stuff going on right now about companies wanting to be able
> to patent genetic sequences as they find them, and the hullabaloo about
> "owning life" as it has been put by some, I was wondering what people
> working in the scientific community would think of a web site that was
> made to be a repository of genetic information that was freely available
> to everybody?

Try http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
http://www.expasy.ch/

They also have good links.

Cheers,
Mitchell

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Subject: Re: Patenting/copyrighting genetic info, free availability of genetic codes
Date: 2000/08/24
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