International Genomics Consortium, Nation's First Clinically Annotated, Publicly Available Gene Expression Database To Help Researchers Accelerate Cancer Treatment, March 5, 2004. The IGC announces a public database initiative, expression project for oncology (expO.)
From the press release: "The goal of expO is to obtain and perform gene expression analyses on an annotated set of tumor and normal tissue samples and release all data into the public domain without intellectual property restriction." Key to the project are standards development, clinical annotations, and follow-up on treatment while maintaining subjects' privacy. Six drug companies are underwriting the initiative along with considerable help from IBM and Arizona State University, the latter of which will host expO's labs. (Source: ScienceDaily)
Posted by
Garrett at 3/09/2004 03:35:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
