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AddGene: Nonprofit Plasmid Repository
- kris-s 9y agoI used to work at Addgene, really enjoyed it. The nonprofit "open science" business model is awesome!
- arctux 9y agoAddgene is a great service. My lab has ordered a couple vectors from them. I do wish the material transfer agreements were less painful, though. It's great to see more open science. Now we just need to fix publishing, and we're golden...
- kris-s 9y agoOh yeah MTAs are a nightmare.
- nhejazi 9y agoIndeed, what they've been doing has been really great -- been a key tool for a lot of the bioinformatics work in our group.
- mycoborea 9y agoAddgene is a wonderful and necessary service. Sort of like an open source wetware repo. Great place to work too.
- indescions_2017 9y agoThe parallels to Github for code distribution and re-use cannot be overlooked ;) Addgene also works with another Cambridge nonprofit called Seeding Labs. They take donations in the form of scientific equipment, lab services and expertise and then distribute around the world. Following a "local problems are best solved locally" approach. The power of a model that is not only open but "shared" seems to replicate itself organically. To scientists, a distributed workflow comes quite naturally! https://seedinglabs.org/ https://seedinglabs.org/
- bonniemuffin 9y agoI used to order lots of plasmids from Addgene when I worked in bioscience -- it's an awesome service. The plasmids are hugely cheaper than anything you can order from a for-profit supplier, and it lets scientists easily share and remix each other's work.