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Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Major dataset put into public domain

Applied Biosystems Announces Major Data Release into Public Domain, a press release from Applied Biosystems, October 26, 2005. (Thanks to John Wilbanks.) Excerpt:
Applied Biosystems...today announced the contribution of more than 400,000 PCR primer–pair designs for nearly 16,000 human genes for detection of DNA sequence variants associated with disease and other phenotypes. The primer sequences will be made available through a new [open-access] Probe Database developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).