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by elil17 1740 days ago
I don’t think that’s the example you think it is - HGP was a US government project. Private companies went on to commercialize gene sequencing, but the R&D was started by the public sector.
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john_yaya 1740 days ago
That’s not really accurate. Celera ran in parallel to the HGP, and (at least for a while) generated superior results at 1/10th the cost.
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elil17 1739 days ago
They started 8 years after HGP (which was a 13 year long project), used data from HGP, and only ever sequenced a mouse genome.
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