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Too Much Ownership: Bio-prospecting in the Age of Synthetic Biology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2016

Alain Pottage
Alain Pottage
Affiliation:
London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK E-mail: r.a.pottage@lse.ac.uk
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Abstract

Taking the example of Craig Venter’s marine bio-prospecting expedition, this article explores the effects that bioinformatics and sequencing technologies have had upon the process of bio-prospecting. What kind of an aggregate is a collection that spans evolutionary ecologies, database logics and programmable synthetic organisms? And by means of what displacements, translations and topologies are genetic collections ‘made up’ in the age of bioinformatics and synthetic biology?

Keywords

Bio-contractingBio-prospectingConvention on Biological DiversityOwnershipSynthetic biologyVenter
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BioSocieties , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 137 - 158
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London School of Economics and Political Science

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