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To: Boplicity who wrote (2720)	6/28/2000 7:40:00 AM
From: allen menglin chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13572

Greg, The public HGP's data need about another 2-3 yrs to get to CRA's level as of today. And CRA will get mouse genome sequenced in about 2-3 months and assembled by next summer. CRA is not selling just the Genome data, but the software tools to dig the genes among 97% junks genome. E.g. by comparing to mouse genome to human's, u can identify most of the genes. Doug H posted a great CRA link to me on this board. boards.fool.com

To: Boplicity who wrote (2720)	7/1/2000 11:17:53 AM
From: Oak Tree	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13572

Independent of what CRA says, the question is not answered satisfactorily in their literature. It is very likely that when the data is available to everybody for free, everybody with any IT knowledge will be writing code to search the database. Indeed several of my friends (and employees) are set to do it. I for one don't expect to get rich though. We already can search most of the data bank and do. Most new gene discovery for example is done by searching the already existing data banks. CRA is dead. They had expected to be able to patent the human genomes. That would have been big money. Searching the human, mouse, and yeast genomes is already available for free from the NIH.