One of the successes of Unix was because of free and open source software. One part of that in a biological setting is free/libre data. Efforts like the Harva

One of the successes of Unix was because of free and open source software. One part of that in a biological setting is free/libre data. Efforts like the Harvard Personal Genome Project [1], Open Humans [2] and OpenSNP [3] are trying to provide researchers and the community as a whole with free/libre data so that research isn't done in silos or walled gardens. CRISPR is pretty exciting but we also need to make sure there's a rich commons to build on. I encourage everyone to look into and support projects that make free/libre genomic data more available. [1] http://www.personalgenomes.org/harvard/about http://www.personalgenomes.org/harvard/about [2] https://www.openhumans.org/ https://www.openhumans.org/ [3] https://opensnp.org/ https://opensnp.org/