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Nature 446, 725 (12 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/446725a; Published online 11 April 2007

Open Innovation Challenges

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Save your notes, drafts and printouts: today's work is tomorrow's history

Sydney Brenner1 & Richard J. Roberts2

  1. Salk Institute for Biological Studies, PO Box 85800, San Diego, California 92186, USA
  2. New England Biolabs, 240 County Road, Ipswich, Massachusetts 01938, USA

Science is one of the greatest cultural achievements of humankind. And yet — although we assiduously preserve the preparatory sketches of artists, the drafts of novelists and the manuscript scores of composers — there is little systematic preservation of the workings of scientists.