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It's an Honor Just to Be Nominated

Jan 18, 2007

The folks behind the Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences are accepting nominations now. Described as "a humanitarian award presented annually ... to an individual who has, in his or her practice, promoted open access to the materials and methods used in the scientific field of bioinformatics," the honor has in the past gone to Michael Ashburner, Ewan Birney, Lincoln Stein, Jim Kent, and Michael Eisen. You can go here to submit your nominations.

 

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