Open-Source Biology

nicholast writes with this "article describing the growing use of open-source collaboration methods in biology. The subtitle and main question is: Can a band of biologists who share data freely out-innovate the corporate researchers who hoard it?"

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Open Source Biology isn't limited to biogenetics

[jfrumkin]

For instance, we're doing an open source phylogenetic project called The Tree of Life, which promotes both the open access to phylogenetic information, and open source software through the code itself. Many biologists are using open source software to further their research - case in point in O'Reilly's recent Bioinformatics conference.