Bioperl: Open Source and Bio questions

[Lincoln Stein]

Hi Clay,

I really don't know what Craig is patenting, and wouldn't want to
misrepresent his plans.  Have you asked him?  He's a very open and
forthcoming kind of guy.

Lincoln


Clay Shirky writes:
 > I write and speak about Open Source and network economics, (my
 > writings are collected at http://www.shirky.com/) and recently I have
 > been following the revolution in biology as information science.
 > 
 > I have a question about the nature of the open source vs proprietary
 > competition in the genomics world: I have seen a variety of
 > conflicting claims about the sort of genomic patents Celera is
 > filing. Is Ventner:
 > 
 > a) patenting the sequence of a particular gene, so that anyone who
 >    wants to work with that gene must license it?
 > b) patenting only biological methods that interoperate with that gene?
 > c) patenting SNP's of that gene, but leaving the wild type allelle in
 >    the public domain? or
 > d) only patenting tools for working with the related genetic material
 >    and patenting nothing of the sequence itself?
 > 
 > (I have seen all four claims made in different forums.)
 > 
 > Thanks very much,
 > 
 > -clay
 > 
 > --
 > Clay Shirky
 > Professor, New Media
 > Department of Film & Media
 > Hunter College
 > http://www.shirky.com/

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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
lstein@cshl.org			                  Cold Spring Harbor, NY
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