2012 Franklin Award Accepting Nominations

Nominations are being accepted for the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award  for Open Access in the Life Sciences. The award is a humanitarian/bioethics award presented annually by Bioinformatics.org an individual who has, in his or her practice, promoted free and open access to the materials and methods used in the life sciences.

The first Franklin Award was given in 2002, and the winners make up a distinguished list of open source advocates and pioneers chosen by Bioinformatics.org and its some 24,000 members.