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Open Source Biology Initiative

Posted by Hemos on from the good-move dept.

Nick dos Remedios writes "The Biological Innovation for Open Society (BIOS) initiative aims to make biological technology more readily available to biologists everywhere. The latest genetics and biology tools should be freely available to researchers over the internet, but instead access is typically restricted by commercial patents and prohibitive licensing fees. BIOS and its associated BioForge aims to overcome these restrictions to innovation by encouraging companies and public sector research organizations to contribute their research tools and technologies to the BioForge repository. In return, users of the technology are bound by an open source license to share all improvements with the original inventors and other license holders."

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  1. Yep by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.payfornothing.com/ has a bit more information on this. Kinda neat..

  2. First post ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post ? Who knows ? ... yeah

  3. AC strikes again!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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