> But the hardware is just the first step. Boyce says the company will approach institutes with an enticing offer. "We will sell you these cheap systems, or sequence your samples ourselves, but there is a catch. After a certain time period has elapsed, you have to give us those samples for our open source database."<p>Awesome. Their license requires you to release your sequence data to them. It's as if by using GNU/Linux, you had to release your documents and music publicly.<p>Although generally I support freedom of genetic information, this has to be done at the level of the IRB and with informed consent from the people giving you the DNA. As an aside, the article grossly misstates what a biomarker is.