Forget books, MP3 players or vacuums. Amazon.com wants to offer you a copy of the human genome this holiday season.
Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, has started offering access to large collections of data. Business customers and scientists can take the information, which ranges from census databases to three-dimensional chemical structures and the genome, and use it as the basis for computing jobs. By gathering and storing the information, Amazon says that it can save businesses the step of assembling and managing data on their own.
Born, like other comic book characters, out of an otherwise trivial but life-changing animal bite, the Rabid Librarian seeks out strange, useless facts, raves about real and perceived injustices, and seeks to meet her greatest challenge of all--her own life.
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Saturday, December 06, 2008
Hmmm...an interesting move
Amazon Starts Renting Out the Human Genome (via the Jedi Librarian)...
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