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More on Science Commons
I’ve written before about Science Commons and the complexity of the issues they address. PopSci is carrying a great article where you can learn more strait from John Wilbank’s mouth, as it were. Here’s just a taste of the overall vision:
In five years, if everything comes out as I hope, you’ll have a system that looks like Amazon for the life sciences. You could click on one thing—a relevant cell line, for example—and get recommendations for related research or tools. You could one-click and order that cell line from a third party instead of having to ask another laboratory to stop doing research and manufacture it for you. There’d be management systems that would join data from around the world, and you could use Google Maps API to flag brain images with comments. Scholarly literature would be available for free because the peer-review charges would be paid as part of the cost of research instead of through subscription models, and the annotations or comments that had been made on any given paper would be readily available.
No lack of ambition here.
