by Ted Agres
BIOBUSINESS	Dueling Databases Can companies still make money selling genomic and molecular information? Email: Ted Agres - tagres@the-scientist.com The Scientist 2005, 19(13):42 Published   4 July 2005

Celera Genomics made hundreds of millions of dollars by selling access to its proprietary genome sequence information. But this month, Celera discontinued its database subscription service and made its 30 billion base pairs of genomic data of humans, rats, and mice freely available through GenBank, operated by the US National Center for Biotechnology Information.

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