[p2p-research] The evolution of P2P science...

[Ryan Lanham]

The following is from here:

http://www.xconomy.com/national/2010/01/06/five-biotechnologies-that-will-fade-away-this-decade/?single_page=true


5. *Hunter-gatherer approaches where large groups collect massive clinical
and genomic information and expect that they as the data generator will be
the data analyzer*. Funding of large cohort studies like the famous
“Framingham Heart Study” that has been following the health of patients in
Framingham, MA for more than 60 years have been extremely valuable. The old
methods used for these studies assumed that the analysis would be done by
the small group of primary collectors of the samples and data. This model,
too, will be fading as distributed groups of scientists evolve the knowledge
faster and more efficiently than those who generated the data. Remember,
this is already how physicists work today. Also remember Jim Gray of
Microsoft Research, and his ideas on “The Fourth Paradigm,” which says that
scientific theory, experimentation, and large-scale computational simulation
will begin to interact and reinforce each other in ways that will speed up
scientific progress.

We will need to do biology research in fundamentally different social
contexts as we move into this next decade. This means biologists will need
to start pooling their knowledge through social networking channels, not
unlike how computer scientists have long done for open source software
development.

*Stephen H. Friend is president, CEO and a co-founder of Sage Bionetworks,
an international genomic research collaborative. *
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Ryan
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