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21. Strengthening Public-Domain Mechanisms in the Federal Government: A Perspective From Biological and Environmental Research
Pages 161-164

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From page 161...
... science effort in service to DOE missions and, by extension, our citizenry. Our office supports research in various scientific areas, among them environmental sciences, global climate research, medical technologies and imaging, and genomics including the Human Genome Project that we started in 1986.
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From page 162...
... On April 5, 2002, Science published two papers6 7 reporting the draft genome sequences for two subspecies of rice, Oryza saliva; one is from Syngenta International Inc.'s Torrey Mesa Research Institute and was published with limitations on data access essentially identical to those associated with Celera's human genome sequence publication. Considerable controversy has resulted from these policies; however, this presents a challenge to make constructive suggestions for ways to move forward that might reduce the impasse and perhaps promote greater data sharing.
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From page 163...
... The burden of argument is on the academic sector to attract and justify greater openness on the part of private-sector science and to state clearly what the benefits to the private sector can be. 9See the SNP Consortium Web site at http://snp.cshl.org/, as well as Chapter 28 of these Proceedings, "The Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Consortium," by Michael Morgan for additional information.
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From page 164...
... (4) We suggest some mechanisms, none particularly novel, that could be used to increase private sectorpublic sector collaboration.
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