[open-science] Rare Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s (NYTimes)

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Graham Steel <steelgraham at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Dear All,
>
> As you may already know, there has been a lot of discussion on the web in
> the last 24 hours regarding 'Rare Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on
> Alzheimer’s (NYTimes)':-
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html?emc=eta1
>
> May I propose that this article/discussion is put on the agenda for the
> next monthly meet up of the OKFN's Working Group on Open Data in Science.
>

This is an excellent high-profile example of Open Data. Do you have
suggestions as to how we can take this forward.

There is so much happening in this area now that we have to work out what is
the best use of our resources and how to get more people involved. Maybe we
shoudl use this and others as picked examples of why Open data works - a
sort of prospectus.

Unfortunately not everyone will be convinced and in chemistry it's really
tough.

P.



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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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