Celera finally releasing data to GenBank
The BBC is covering the story under the misleading title “Human genome data to be released”. This is misleading, because the public Human Genome Project released their data long ago (which they do mention in the article). (A badly-written headline on a news story? Quelle surprise!)
I’m pleased. I’m biased, because I worked on the public HGP, but having this additional data in GenBank is a Very Good Thing in my opinion. Free availability of genome data has already helped researchers around the world.
