9/04/2008 PERMALINK
The wikiomics movement is the future of science ~ open From an article in Nature:

Pioneering biologists are trying to use wiki-type web pages to manage and interpret data, reports Mitch Waldrop. But will the wider research community go along with the experiment?

Wikiomics-style open science projects allow the top people in any field, worldwide, to collaborate in real time over the net, rather than waiting months for journals to be published or conferences to be attended to exchange vital data and ideas. Scientific journals, like all of the old dead-tree media, wish the net would just go away, but open source science over the net is the future of science ... more

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