This comprehensive collection of DNA samples obtained from individuals arrested by an agent of a federal law enforcement agency will have several remarkable consequences. For example, if an information altruist, such as a volunteer for the Personal Genome Project, puts put on the web a substantial fraction of her genome, federal authorities will be able to trivially run a search program to see if any of them match the genomic characteristics of one of the previously arrested individuals. High-throughput genomics finally meets high-throughput forensics.
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