one of the things i heard last week was that the addition of the private for profit celera to the "race" to map the genome speeded up the process just by the virtue of having competition. now i guess celera had the added benefit that the governments research was openly available to whoever wanted it so celera could build on information in the public sphere but they also brought in powerful technological resources that the government couldnt afford or didnt want to spend their limited resources on. so one wonders to what extent did this keep things underbudget and ahead of schedule?
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- dave 6-26-2000 6:50 pm