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I don’t know about ‘all the agencies collecting DNA’, but they already should have freezers for storing samples, and sequencing is not the only way of obtaining
by special_garbage 5y ago
I don’t know about ‘all the agencies collecting DNA’, but they already should have freezers for storing samples, and sequencing is not the only way of obtaining genetic data. Microarrays are super cheap if ordered in bulk and have great coverage. Though even with sequencing they might make a profit depending on how much they are selling the data for …
- rob_c 5y agoChances are that given the cost quite a few are simply doing a basic sequence themselves (not a full strand) and selling on the data from this, which, whilst it sounds harmless is horribly unethical