Open Source Biotechnology: CAMBIA-BiOS

There is an interesting article ($) in Innovations by Richard Jefferson on his efforts to promote open source innovation in biotechnology. He believes the rate and direction of progress of biology is limited by access to tools (techniques). Richard has established the CAMBIA-BiOS program to apply aspects of the open source software model to biotechnology.

The prospect of open source biology is very intriguing, but fraught with complexities. I plan to post more on the biotech open source movement in the future.