Genetic Research- Government or Private

Now, I couldn't actually suddenly start talking like a normal human being. I must stay as nerdy as I possibly can, for as long as I possibly can. Therefore, today I'm going to talk about a war that's going on between Celera and the Human Genome Project.

The Human Genome Project is a government run genetic research project, where Celera is a private genetic research corporation. Celera brought research to the forefront, bringing the concept of *gasp* computerizing the decoding of nucleotide bases and therefore genetic code. Celera's system can decode 1000 nucleotide bases a second. The Human Genome Project did it all by hand. Human Genome Project employs thousands of geneticists, where Celera does even more work with very few geneticists. Human Genome Project is nearly entirely government funded, where Celera doesn't take a cent of tax money. But Celera claims that the Human Genome Project should release their data to the public (aka Celera). After all Celera pays taxes like everybody else, and is therefore entitled to the government's data. The Human Genome Project has even tried to patent their decoded codes and does not believe that Celera is entitled to their data.

Personally, I agree with Celera. Furthermore, Celera said that the genetic code of a human is being raced for. The Human Genome Project says that it's horrible to compare to a race. Celera retorts back that, "If one sailboat is going somewhere, and another is also going there, they're racing." But this "racing" has motivated both projects to speed up. Sounds good to me.

Personally, I'm with Celera.

Well, of course, we needed this. So there you go.

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