<span style="font-weight: bold;">"Paul D. Fernhout" <<a href="mailto:pdfernhout@kurtz-fernhout.com" target="_blank">pdfernhout@kurtz-fernhout.com</a>></span>
Apr 11 09:01PM -0400
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Bryan-<br>
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You've probably seen this already, but maybe others have not: :-)<br><br><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/11/2214230/Bringing-Open-Source-To-Biomedicine" target="_blank">http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/11/2214230/Bringing-Open-Source-To-Biomedicine</a><br>
"Facebook and Twitter may have proven that humans have a deep-seated <br>
desire for sharing, [but] this impulse is still widely suppressed in <br>
biomedicine,' biotech reporter Luke Timmerman observes in this column on
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Sage Bionetworks founder Stephen Friend. Friend is working to convince <br>
drugmakers and academic researchers to pool their experimental genomic <br>
data in a shared database called the Sage Commons. The database could be
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used to track adverse drug events, or to 'visually display network <br>
models of disease that connect the dots between genes, proteins, and <br>
clinical manifestations of disease in ways that [scientific] journals <br>
are not equipped to handle,' Timmerman says. Researchers from Stanford, <br>
Columbia, UCSF, and UCSD are already contributing to the Sage Commons, <br>
and Friend is now calling for a community effort by drugmakers, academic
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scientists, doctors, regulators, insurers, and patients to 'grab this <br>
platform and run with it on their own."<br><a href="http://www.xconomy.com/national/2011/04/11/open-source-biology-deserves-a-shot/?single_page=true" target="_blank">http://www.xconomy.com/national/2011/04/11/open-source-biology-deserves-a-shot/?single_page=true</a><br clear="all">
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