I worked at a Max Planck genetics lab and never saw an NDA, or even any reference to the notion of keeping anything secret. The are also dozens of online datab

I worked at a Max Planck genetics lab and never saw an NDA, or even any reference to the notion of keeping anything secret. The are also dozens of online databases for all sorts of data from biology. Reading between the lines, you seem to attach certain ideas to the term „genetics“?