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> And so stayed up several nights and wrote tight C++ code to line up the data and raced the private team over the finish line. I don't understand. Why would t
by wutbrodo 5y ago
> And so stayed up several nights and wrote tight C++ code to line up the data and raced the private team over the finish line.
I don't understand. Why would the university team have to finish it before the private team? If the private team finished it and encumbered access to the output, and the university team finished a short while later, wouldn't that have the same effect? Or would there some sort of funding drop-off once the task was achieved, that wouldn't account for whether the output was made accessible?
- qw 5y agoIIRC they were worried that the private company would be able to patent the results and make the data proprietary.
- inciampati 5y agoAt the time it seemed plausible that the first group to sequence the human genome could patent it. That's since been struck down in US patent case law. But it was a real possibility. Although this was a race it's fun to note that both sides we're learning from the other and using resources produced by the other. The assembly techniques were worked out by Gene Myers for instance, who worked at Celera.