A. Jamie Cuticchia & Gregg W. Silk, Bioinformatics needs a software archive, Nature 429, 241 (20 May 2004). (Access restricted to subscribers.) Two researches point out in a letter that bioinformatics databases and software disappear after a project ends or loses funding (they cite one example of a U.S. funded genomics project which cost somewhere around $50 million which was succeded by a private venture, losing the source code for the database in the process.) They call for a publicly funded repository that they name Bioinformatics Software Archive. "As with software released under open-source agreements, a central archive will help stop too many researchers trying to reinvent the wheel (thereby saving research funds)."
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Garrett at 5/19/2004 02:26:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
