Open Source Biology

March 4, 2005 1:10 PM

BIOS-Biological Innovation for Open Society is an open source biotechnology initiative based in Australia. Along with its parent organization CAMBIA, it aims to foster a "protected commons" for scientific information and technology. Tools and techniques are shared, and can be improved and repackaged, just like in open source software.
posted by OmieWise (2 comments total)

See also their version of SourceForge: BioForge where tools and techniques for biotechnology research and practice are available for use.
posted by OmieWise at 1:13 PM on March 4, 2005

This is really interesting, thanks for the link. I'm looking forward to examining it more later.
posted by livii at 9:08 AM on March 5, 2005