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GnuBio launches as open-source genome sequencing startup
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| GnuBio is a new Harvard University spinout
| that is poised to become an "eBay of
| Biomarkers," according to founder John
| Boyce. Boyce, who spent several years at
| Cambridge-based genome sequencer Helicos
| Biosciences Corp., has joined with Harvard
| professor of physics and engineering Dave
| Weitz and Jessica Tonani, former associate
| director of product marketing for Santa
| Clara, Calif.-based gene sequencing
| company Affymetrix Inc., to create a
| company that is part genome sequencing,
| part database management, part social
| network. It promises to join together
| millions of biologicial samples that are
| currently siloed at institutes around the
| world, and to do it using an open source
| platform.
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http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2010/05/31/daily32-GnuBio-launches-as-open-source-genome-sequencing-startup.html
On The Scene: On the map and in the future
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| Open Source Bridge is a completely
| volunteer-run conference dedicated to the
| concept of âopen source citizenship:â in
| which developers learn from one another
| and connect across projects.
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http://www.oregonbusiness.com/on-the-scene/3598-on-the-scene-on-the-map-and-in-the-future
Open Sourcing Politics
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| âLinux is subversiveâ: so begins âThe
| Cathedral and the Bazaar,â Eric Raymond's
| analysis of the open source way. The
| subversion there was mainly applied to the
| world of software, but how much more
| subversive are the ideas that lie behind
| open source when applied to politics.
|
| That is precisely what the increasingly-
| important open government movement aims to
| do, an area I've been covering in this
| blog partly because of its close kinship
| with open source, but also because of the
| major implications it has for the use of
| open source â not least because open
| government tends to promote its
| deployment. But what exactly is open
| government, and how does it flow from open
| source?
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2995
Why "Naked Transparency" Has No Clothes
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| First of all, I think we already have a
| data point on such radical transparency.
| Open source is conducted totally in the
| open, with all decisions being subject to
| challenge and justification. That
| manifestly works, for all its "naked
| transparency".
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| Now, politics is plainly different in
| certain key respects, not least because
| hackers are different from politicians,
| and there has been a culture of *anti*-
| openness among the latter.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-naked-transparency-has-no-clothes.html
WIPO To Open Its Doors To Public For First Time Ever
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| The World Intellectual Property
| Organization is opening its doors to the
| public on Saturday for a glimpse at the
| organisationâs activities, during its
| first-ever âopen day.â
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| Visitors will be given the opportunity to
| ask WIPO staff, including the director
| general, questions during the day. The
| event is part of a larger Geneva weekend
| event to coincide with World Environment
| Day on 5 June. The UN Environment
| Programme is organising events on the
| Place des Nations, and the gardens of the
| Palais des Nations will also be open to
| the public on 5 June, and on 6 June the
| International Peace Bureau will have
| events along the Geneva lakeside.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2010/06/02/wipo-to-open-its-doors-to-public-for-first-time-ever/
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