Usually Science requires that researchers file their sequences in GenBank, a freely accessible database, before they are allowed to publish, as the Beijing institute has done.

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DNA, for example, it is useful to compare it with a central database (such as GenBank) of existing sequences to see what it resembles.

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As every biomedical scientist knows, GenBank is a free, public database of genetic sequence data that contains millions of sequences, from humans, bacteria, viruses, you name it.

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