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The Boston Globe
Celera Has Mouse Map Monopoly" Celera Genomics Corp. will announce this morning that it has compiled a virtually complete gene map for the laboratory mouse -- but the company has decided against full scientific publication of the feat in order to preserve the data as a commercial product."
" The announcement means Venter's company is likely far ahead of publicly financed researchers in analyzing the genome of the laboratory mouse, an organism of vital import in research by drug companies, biotechnology companies and academic scientists. All these groups are prime markets for Celera, which sells access to genetic databases. Celera is "the only place to get the mouse genome," Venter said."
"Growing doubts about the importance of genomics in drug discovery are holding sales of Celera Genomics' database in check, chief executive Craig Venter said on Thursday.
The new scepticism is limiting Celera's sales to the pharmaceutical industry, even as its sales to academic institutions thrive.
The discovery that the human body has far fewer genes than once believed has thrown into question the "one gene, one protein, one drug" model, Mr Venter explained."
redux [03.10.01]
"With information on the genome now rapidly becoming available, the business models for companies that sell information about the genome, such as Celera and Incyte, may soon be outmoded. Biotech companies will then have to earn their stripes the old-fashioned way: by developing blockbuster drugs. Of course, proteomics companies could arise to sell information about proteins to other drug companies, but Strosberg thinks this is a flawed approach. Given his history, he should know. "Incyte's business model," he recalls, "was originally to be an information provider. That period is over. People will not pay as much for information as they used to because so much of it is now publicly available. Information is becoming a commodity." Instead of selling information about proteins, he is focusing Hybrigenics on using its proteomics information to develop drugs, either alone or in partnership with larger pharmaceutical companies."
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