For all the hullabaloo surrounding the completion of the rough draft of the entire human genome, this feat doesn't mean much. The DNA sequences gathered so far are little more than raw material for new therapies and new knowledge of how the body works. As columnist Steve Hall points out (see "Botstein's Caveat"), the real work of refining the raw material has just begun. And in that work, rights to DNA sequences will be critically important.

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