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I would say you dodged a bullet. This guy's repo is fast becoming a gag: https://github.com/msporny/dna/network/members

Also, he explicitly released it under the Creative Commons Public Domain License. Incidentally, I wonder if that has any patent implications? Does having genomes in the public domain prevent pharma companies from patenting their "discoveries"?

Heh. The GitHubt default text on that page is accidentally funny in itself ;)

msporny created dna and everyone else forked it. This is the family tree.

Aren't you not supposed to be able to patent facts? Seems like your DNA structure should be classified as a fact.

see the BRCA1/2 (myriad) debacle. horrible mess.

The public domain shouldn't matter. Publication could.

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