Yeah, Dan B. is correct (for every research-intensive university that I've ever been affiliated with) and unless you publish in an open-access journal, the journal owns the copyrights to your writing.
"Mendel's Dwarf" by Simon Mawer is an excellent and also entertaining piece of fiction that remarkably gives a superb biography of Gregor Mendel in the telling. Note: not exactly appropriate for 5-6th graders!
In my field(s) of study (bioinformatics, genetics, evolution, organismal and molecular biology), I can say that the open source movement has NOT been adopted by the majority. However, I have recently come across the R project (particularly Bioconductor.org ) which is HIGHLY respected by many MS-oriented biologists from a wide scope of fields. Many computational tasks which are limited to those who can fork out $6000 per year for a license, can be performed on R (for free). Although the learning curve is somewhat steep, I've found the documentation to be exceptional and have been able to execute my needs within a day or two. It has also come to my attention that many graduate students and professors across the country are actively learning R. Granted, many of the users of R are probably "sophisticated"- familar with SAS, C, or UNIX- but it seems to me that open-source is congruent with the peer-review process that so many academics are familiar with and value. I think, if we can introduce it to enough people, and explain to them WHY the open-source method (as opposed to proprietary software) is invaluable, it will become mainstream. R seems to be leading the way in academia at least...
About a month ago, my boyfriend and I decided we wanted to build a model. You know- those kind you snap together the pieces and paint? the kind my dad and brother spent nights upon nights working on when I was a child? We looked at EVERY toy store in Syracuse,NY and couldn't find ONE. Finally we asked the guy at toys 'r us if they had them. "no, we quit selling them a few years ago cause we didn't sell 'em." We finally found some- in Michaels' craft stores and in a little hobby store about 10 miles out of town. All of them are >$20. plus, you gotta buy the paints. it' sad.
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To further clarify, retrotransposons do not "pepper the brain tissue". They are confined to the genome which is in the nucleus of a cell.
Yeah, Dan B. is correct (for every research-intensive university that I've ever been affiliated with) and unless you publish in an open-access journal, the journal owns the copyrights to your writing.
"Mendel's Dwarf" by Simon Mawer is an excellent and also entertaining piece of fiction that remarkably gives a superb biography of Gregor Mendel in the telling. Note: not exactly appropriate for 5-6th graders!
"Rosalind Franklin: the dark lady of DNA"
-Brenda Maddox-
In my field(s) of study (bioinformatics, genetics, evolution, organismal and molecular biology), I can say that the open source movement has NOT been adopted by the majority. However, I have recently come across the R project (particularly Bioconductor.org ) which is HIGHLY respected by many MS-oriented biologists from a wide scope of fields. Many computational tasks which are limited to those who can fork out $6000 per year for a license, can be performed on R (for free). Although the learning curve is somewhat steep, I've found the documentation to be exceptional and have been able to execute my needs within a day or two. It has also come to my attention that many graduate students and professors across the country are actively learning R. Granted, many of the users of R are probably "sophisticated"- familar with SAS, C, or UNIX- but it seems to me that open-source is congruent with the peer-review process that so many academics are familiar with and value. I think, if we can introduce it to enough people, and explain to them WHY the open-source method (as opposed to proprietary software) is invaluable, it will become mainstream. R seems to be leading the way in academia at least...
About a month ago, my boyfriend and I decided we wanted to build a model. You know- those kind you snap together the pieces and paint? the kind my dad and brother spent nights upon nights working on when I was a child? We looked at EVERY toy store in Syracuse,NY and couldn't find ONE. Finally we asked the guy at toys 'r us if they had them. "no, we quit selling them a few years ago cause we didn't sell 'em." We finally found some- in Michaels' craft stores and in a little hobby store about 10 miles out of town. All of them are >$20. plus, you gotta buy the paints. it' sad.