Startups with fewer than 30 employees will be able to submit competition proposals describing their data problem and providing a sample of their data.

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The DNA samples used to identify a "true" wildcat include a Victorian specimen kept in the British Museum - providing a sample with 63, 000 genetic markers.

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The serial stalker was arrested four years later after again being considered a suspect and voluntarily providing a DNA sample.

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