IP: 'Open Source Biology' in Washington Monthly

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Denise Caruso <caruso () hybridvigor org>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:28:17 -0700
To: farber () dsl cis upenn edu
Subject: 'Open Source Biology' in Washington Monthly

Hi Dave,

Don't know if you saw this ... thought it might be of interest to
IP'ers who are sniffing around the biotech world. I thought the piece
was well done, and pretty thought provoking. (Item below is snipped
from the HVNEWS list.)

Denise


> OPEN SOURCE BIOLOGY FEATURED IN WASHINGTON MONTHLY
> The concept behind "Open Source Biology," a term coined in 1999 by
> researchers at the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley (whose
> director, Roger Brent, is a Hybrid Vigor director), is the subject of
> fascinating article in the July/August 2002 issue of the Washington
> Monthly.
>
> Written by Nicholas Thompson, a Markle Fellow at the New America
> Foundation, the article is entitled, "May the Source Be With You: Can
> a band of biologists who share data freely out-innovate the corporate
> researchers who hoard it?"
>
> Good question. Full text online:
> http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0207.thompson.html
>
> The Molecular Sciences Institute:
> http://www.molsci.org

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