GnuBio launches as open-source genome sequencing startup - Mass High Tech Business News
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"GnuBio is a new Harvard University spinout that is poised to become an "eBay of Biomarkers," according to founder John Boyce....[The] company...is part genome sequencing, part database management, part social network....Boyce says the company will approach institutes with an enticing offer. "We will sell you these cheap systems [such as a $45k gene sequencer], or sequence your samples ourselves, but there is a catch. After a certain time period has elapsed, you have to give us those samples for our open source database," Boyce said...."