[OWW-Discuss] 'Biology goes open source' (forbes)

[Jason Kelly]

"Novartis, the Basel, Switzerland, drug giant, has helped uncover
which of the 20,000 genes identified by the Human Genome Project are
likely to be associated with diabetes. But rather than hoard this
information, as drug firms have traditionally done, it is making it
available for free on the World Wide Web."

http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/12/novartis-genes-diabetes-research-biz-cz_mh_0212novartis.html?partner=rss

also covered on Slashdot:
http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/02/12/1932221.shtml

it's a start anyway,
jason