Crypto is funding Single Molecule Sequencing of Cannabis Genomes
Late May of 2018, the DASH master node network voted to fund the Single Molecule sequencing of a TypeII Cannabis Plant.
Type II cannabis plants
We have proposed to the DASH DAO to fund the sequencing of a Type II cannabis plant and place this genome on a public blockchain with a crypto-incentivized, Blockchain transparent peer review process.
This proposal can be seen HERE
This is the second phase of a project that DASH funded in December with the highest voter turn out of any project currently funded.
There are two important reasons to expand this investment.
1)Cannabis Patents are now issuing and are very broad. Any plant that makes CBDA and THCA are now covered by this patent. These are called Type II Cannabis plants.
Many people claim to have Type II plants still alive today that predate the 2013 filing of the patent. In fact Type II plants are believed to be the natural Hardy Weinberg state of the THCA/CBDA genetics. Prohibition incentivized humans to breed toward Type I plants that make all THCA and no CBDA. Fortunately we published the genome of a Type I plant in 2011 to assist in prior art generation and public ownership of Type I plants. By placing the sequence of a Type II plant public, we can help enable the community to sequence their documented Pre-2013 Type II plants. They can then compare their sequence to this public reference to document the Bt:Bd allele (mentioned in some of the claims). This will assist in building a Prior Use Exemption and more public evidence for the invalidity of the claims.
2)Peer Review is broken and DASH can fix it. 50% of Scientific journals can’t be reproduced. The journals with the higher impact factor have a higher retraction rate. The incentives are based on costly and rusty Gutenberg era publishing economics. The cost of publication is near zero today. Crypto-incentivized, Blockchain transparent peer review will dis-intermediate this market and re-align the incentive models for higher accuracy, more transparency and faster turn around times.
After speaking with several people in the field, it was recommended we place a public crypto address for people outside of the DASH MNO network to contribute to the project.
We have chosen to do this with exclusively with DASH while the project is still in review. We may open this to alternative coins if it fails to get enough MNO votes for the project. For a detailed scientific dissection of the project, please see the DASH proposal above.
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Thank you for the consideration and public charity.
If you would like your name to be on the attribution list of the genomes landing page please contact us at [email protected]. It is possible to link your name to a donating crypto address via digital signature.
Shortly after Ernest Hancock covered this topic on his Radio Show, Elon Musk tweeted a similar idea. He is behind Trive.news who has something like this currently running to fight fake news. It is our belief that one can not fix fake news without fixing fake science. If 50% of the scientific papers can not be reproduced we need to extend these concepts to scientific peer review. The scientific content requires data stores far larger than news articles and thus we are encouraged by the architecture behind DASH drive.
Strain Selection Criteria:
1)Type II DNA confirmation of the Bt:Bd allele using youPCR and methods described by McKernan et al
2)History that predates 2013.
3)Currently alive and in circulation to enable further study of the plants genetics.
4)If possible, low heterozygosity to assist in genome assembly.