John Sulston Basic Quotations

Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.

The fact is that proprietary databases don't work for such basic and broadly needed information as the sequence of the human genome.

I believe our basic information, our 'software', should be free and open for everyone to play with, to compete with, to try and make products from. I do not believe it should be under the control of one person.