In this article, Matt Luchette summarizes two presentations at last week's Bio-IT World Conference + Expo. Both advocated for open access in the life sciences, and one was by our own 2013 Benjamin Franklin Award laureate, Steven Salzberg.

EXCERPT

"Salzberg is perhaps best-known for developing a series of popular open-source software platforms, including Glimmer (a bacterial gene finder) and the Tuxedo software suite of next generation sequencing tools. Salzberg insists the software stay open-source because 'free software gets used.'"

SOURCE

http://www.bio-itworld.com/2013/4/16/open-science-open-data-open-access.html