patenting of sequences/secrecy/ (Score 1)

Open computing won't work because the commercial entities routinely refuse to share the information they have developed until they have had time to file for the patents.

The suggestion that corporate interests are "only" patenting the sequences and not the genes is sophistry. The vast majority of genes will have only one or two "uses" detection, alteration and countermeasures. Under the current patent system he who sequences, for all intents and purposes "owns" that gene. Nobody else can use any detection, alteration or counter system system using the gene or protein sequence patented without paying royalties.

For the vast majority of disease causing genes, any kind of gene therapy or other cure is decades away. Meanwhile, we are stuck with the ability to predict without the power to do anything. The genetic information about people which is being collected is by far the most intimate and dangerous information about individual humans that has ever been collected.