ARTICLE | Tools & Techniques
SNPs go public
March 8, 1999 8:00 AM UTC
Although a consortium of big pharma companies is reportedly nearing completion of their long-anticipated agreement to build a public database of single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNP data inevitably was destined to become a commodity. The competitive playing field ultimately will be defined by the more difficult - and more value added - challenges of using the information in drug discovery and pharmacogenomics.
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