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Article #4468Re: Patenting/copyrighting genetic info, free availability of genetic codes
From: Jim Prall & Harriet Simand
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 00:00
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Mitchell Isaacs wrote in message <2P8p5.10525$Xg.102756@news-server.bigpond.net.au>... >"Cory C. Albrecht" <coryalbrecht@hotmail.com> wrote in message >news:39A4BB8F.E6C633C0@hotmail.com... >> 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. > Also take a look at www.ensembl.org which is a major effort at just what you describe.
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