[P2P-F] 10 years after human genome project

Sat Feb 19 07:36:44 CET 2011

Many thanks George!

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 4:30 AM, George Papanikolaou <georgepapani at gmail.com
> wrote:

>  Enabling the future
>
> I propose five major lessons that could be gleaned from this first decade
> of the genome era. First, free and open access to genome data has had a
> profoundly positive effect on progress. The radical ethic of immediate data
> deposit, adopted by the Human Genome Project in 1996 and now the norm for
> other community resource projects, empowers the best brains on the planet to
> begin work immediately in analysing the massive amounts of genomic data now
> being produced. It is a very good thing that the 'race for the genome' in
> 1998–2000 resulted in the human genome sequence being immediately and freely
> available to all, rather than becoming a commercial commodity.
>
> read the rest of the article by Collins here
>
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7289/full/464674a.html
>
> George
>

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