Post by skytroll on May 23, 2007 14:32:29 GMT -5
Freedom of Speech and hidden agendas
"Open access to software, journal articles, and data is an issue of profound importance to researchers across the community. The first journals, created in the mid 1600s, were founded with a tacit quid pro quo: disseminate your research, allow others to reproduce your work, and gain a measure of fame in the process. The notoriously secretive Isaac Newton once submitted a paper to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London) on light refraction. But his paper was attacked by the reviewers, and then in the journal. Frustrated, Newton refused to submit another paper to the journal.
Four centuries later, the issue hasn’t changed so much. In 2001, Celera published its assembly of the human genome in Science, but refused to freely distribute the sequence without restrictions. Eddy said he uses Celera’s DVD as a coffee coaster, because the terms barred him from redistributing the sequence data.
In the aftermath of the controversy, the National Academy of Sciences convened the Cech Report, reaffirming the quid pro quo of science publication. “If you’re not disclosing anything, why should you get credit?” said Eddy. “All members of the scientific community … are playing on the same playing field. [If] Celera publishes a paper, their genome sequence should be available. [If] I publish a paper, my software should not be made available to academics only, but to [everyone].”
Celera, Craig Venter, Sequencing paid for by DOE!
Source was posted before.
DOE has a lot of secrets!
more on article:
www.bio-itworld.com/newsitems/2007/may/05-22-06-eddy
Skytroll
"Open access to software, journal articles, and data is an issue of profound importance to researchers across the community. The first journals, created in the mid 1600s, were founded with a tacit quid pro quo: disseminate your research, allow others to reproduce your work, and gain a measure of fame in the process. The notoriously secretive Isaac Newton once submitted a paper to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London) on light refraction. But his paper was attacked by the reviewers, and then in the journal. Frustrated, Newton refused to submit another paper to the journal.
Four centuries later, the issue hasn’t changed so much. In 2001, Celera published its assembly of the human genome in Science, but refused to freely distribute the sequence without restrictions. Eddy said he uses Celera’s DVD as a coffee coaster, because the terms barred him from redistributing the sequence data.
In the aftermath of the controversy, the National Academy of Sciences convened the Cech Report, reaffirming the quid pro quo of science publication. “If you’re not disclosing anything, why should you get credit?” said Eddy. “All members of the scientific community … are playing on the same playing field. [If] Celera publishes a paper, their genome sequence should be available. [If] I publish a paper, my software should not be made available to academics only, but to [everyone].”
Celera, Craig Venter, Sequencing paid for by DOE!
Source was posted before.
DOE has a lot of secrets!
more on article:
www.bio-itworld.com/newsitems/2007/may/05-22-06-eddy
Skytroll