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Nature 431, 494 (30 September 2004) | doi:10.1038/431494a; Published online 29 September 2004
Biologists launch 'open-source movement'
Carina Dennis
An initiative is being established this week with a US$1-million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, to make research tools more readily available to biologists who could not otherwise afford them.The Biological Innovation for Open Society (BIOS) initiative will seek to make information and technologies such as plant-breeding tools freely available.
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