Francis Collins, Has the revolution arrived?

"I propose five major lessons that could be gleaned from this first decade of the genome era. First, free and open access to genome data has had a profoundly positive effect on progress. The radical ethic of immediate data deposit, adopted by the Human Genome Project in 1996 and now the norm for other community resource projects, empowers the best brains on the planet to begin work immediately in analysing the massive amounts of genomic data now being produced. It is a very good thing that the 'race for the genome' in 1998–2000 resulted in the human genome sequence being immediately and freely available to all, rather than becoming a commercial commodity...."