Private Portals: Where’s the Payback?

Sep 01, 2000

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Veteran computational biologist NAT GOODMAN tries out the new online bioinformatics businesses.

This summer, while the world welcomed the human genome sequence, I paid visits to some of the new commercial bioinformatics websites that are meant to help you analyze it. I came away disappointed by a field of products stuck in pre-genomic thinking.

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