Why We Chose 'Open Science'
To accelerate research breakthroughs on brain diseases, the Allen Institute puts all its data online for use without fees.
The Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle grew out of a simple question I posed in 2002 to a constellation of top people in the field: What's the most useful thing we could do to propel neuroscience forward? The consensus became our inaugural project—a comprehensive, molecular-level, three-dimensional map of the mouse brain to show precisely where every gene is active, or "expressed." It was the first step on a long road to understand how genes function in the human brain, knowledge that will point to ways to better diagnose and treat brain ailments...(Subscription Required)...
This is a very important op ed by Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen. Medical research data should be available to public, particularly that produced through funding by the U.S. taxpayer. Shame that the op ed was put behind a paywall by the Wall Street Journal. A lot of people who should read this will not be able to. Curious that a piece of content provided to the Journal for free by Allen, and about "Open Science" requires a paid subscription to read. Roger A. Maduro - Publisher and Editor-in-Chief.
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