The main reason I joined this project (and advocated it to my friends) is that Mt. Sinai do not seem intent on using whatever valuable information is derived from this project for capitalistic gain.

I object to people making money out of other people's misfortune (through illness or otherwise) and so I made a moral choice to support this project over some of the other bio-informatics projects (where I remember reading something stating in convoluted words "we're going to patent anything we find and make a bucketload of cash and you won't see a penny,thanks").

I'm probably in the minority here however, most of you are probably quite comfortable with the medical "industry" making you pay rediculous sums of money for medical treatment. I not so long ago suffered from a very rare (medical journal material) auto-immune disorder; had I not been living in the UK I probably would have bankrupted my parents just to keep me alive.

I'm ranting, so I'll stop

Iain
University of Glasgow