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thundara · 3694 days ago · link · · parent · post: US Government's patent on "Human Ebola Virus Species and Compositions and Methods Thereof"
Well, sequencing is extremely cheap nowadays, and it was also legal up until 2013 to patent whole genomes of organisms. Since then you'd need to either claim a process (i.e. sequencing reverse-transcribed RNA using this specific protocol to diagnose this genetic disease) or engineer a new sequence not found in nature.