"Paul D. Fernhout" <pdfernhout@kurtz-fernhout.com> Apr 11 09:01PM -0400 ^
 
Bryan-
 
You've probably seen this already, but maybe others have not: :-)

http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/11/2214230/Bringing-Open-Source-To-Biomedicine
"Facebook and Twitter may have proven that humans have a deep-seated
desire for sharing, [but] this impulse is still widely suppressed in
biomedicine,' biotech reporter Luke Timmerman observes in this column on
Sage Bionetworks founder Stephen Friend. Friend is working to convince
drugmakers and academic researchers to pool their experimental genomic
data in a shared database called the Sage Commons. The database could be
used to track adverse drug events, or to 'visually display network
models of disease that connect the dots between genes, proteins, and
clinical manifestations of disease in ways that [scientific] journals
are not equipped to handle,' Timmerman says. Researchers from Stanford,
Columbia, UCSF, and UCSD are already contributing to the Sage Commons,
and Friend is now calling for a community effort by drugmakers, academic
scientists, doctors, regulators, insurers, and patients to 'grab this
platform and run with it on their own."
http://www.xconomy.com/national/2011/04/11/open-source-biology-deserves-a-shot/?single_page=true

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