Question

What is the necessity of online publication of the human genome?

• A. For keep the information open and free for use for whole scientific community
• B. To keep the information secure
• C. The information was too large to keep it in paper
• D. All the above

Answer 1

The correct option is A For keep the information open and free for use for whole scientific community

It was unanimously accepted that if the information obtained by HGP was not kept open and easily accessible to all, the purpose of helping the scientific community to grow would fail. The easiest way was to keep the information available in an online database for everyone to access.