My recollection of the contentious issues at the time are that a) the Celera project needed the information being made public by the NIH/international Human Gen

My recollection of the contentious issues at the time are that a) the Celera project needed the information being made public by the NIH/international Human Genome Project in order to assemble sequences, but was keeping secret its own results, and b) it was intent on acquiring IP rights before the information entered the public domain.