Well, the Wall Street Journal seems to be under the impression that CRA's draft is indeed "better"
interactive.wsj.com
(requires subscription)
This one, on Eric Lander's role on the public effort, also worth reading:
interactive.wsj.com
Some quotes from the first article:
Celera Gene Map Earns Scientists' Kudos
Over Human Genome Project Version
By SCOTT HENSLEY
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- For more than a year, J. Craig Venter has boasted that his upstart company, Celera Genomics Group, would produce a better, more user-friendly map of the human genome than legions of taxpayer-funded academics who had almost a decade-long head start.
It turns out for all his braggadocio, Dr. Venter was right.
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Celera's paying subscribers have been using the company's version of the book of human heredity for months. Many of them agree that the Celera genome is more accurate, easier to read and more complete than the rival version produced so far by the 10-year-old, public Human Genome Project.
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But a string of "eureka moments" achieved with a few clicks of a computer mouse persuaded the Immunex researchers that the superior quality of the Celera database could make a big difference in their research.
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To be sure, some Celera subscribers aren't convinced that the service is worth the costs. Harold Garner, a professor of bioinformatics at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, says researchers there have found unique genes in the Celera database only five or 10 times out of thousands of queries.
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