Scientists Seek Order to Potential Confusion of Gene Data
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Scientists from research and health-care groups including Harvard University and the U.S. National Institutes of Health are trying to create a way to standardize and share genetic information before the DNA-scanning field develops into a balkanized mess.
The effort would harmonize data valuable to researchers and medical workers by creating technical, ethical and privacy standards. The group wants to help create a format that would let genetic information be used across institutions, rather than be stuck in closed systems as it is now.