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Editorial
Nature 431, 491 (30 September 2004) | doi:10.1038/431491b; Published online 29 September 2004
Open-source biology
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Abstract
Researchers and entrepreneurs alike should welcome a move to develop a new commons in technological innovation.
With the research community increasingly frustrated by a growing forest of patents around innovations in the biological sciences, an initiative to make research tools from the life sciences open-source deserves to acquire some traction.The Biological Innovation for Open Society (BIOS) initiative (see page 494) makes a distinction between tools and applications of innovation.
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