[bmsran]

"Is here. This not a joke. We can wonder about the license though. Maybe we should ask the walking product of this source: Craig Venter."

The reference build of the human genome (provided here by Ensembl) is almost entirely derived from the public human genome sequencing project, not the private project led by Venter.

[chrisamiller]

And the public reference genome is about 2/3 from a single African American individual from Buffalo, New York!