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Not interested at all in derailing good conversation here but let's give a shoutout to the authors for bucking up the $1500 to Genetics [1] to make this article
by tony_cannistra 8y ago
Not interested at all in derailing good conversation here but let's give a shoutout to the authors for bucking up the $1500 to Genetics [1] to make this article Open Access. It's fortunate that this work was funded by Calico and Ancestry, because otherwise that likely wouldn't have happened.
[1]: http://www.genetics.org/content/after-acceptance http://www.genetics.org/content/after-acceptance
- hbbio 8y agoThey can afford it easily: "J. Graham Ruby, the lead author on the paper, works for Calico Life Sciences, a research and development company funded by Alphabet."
- ejstronge 8y agoFirst, all the authors work for Calico or Ancestry. One could view this as a ‘published whitepaper’, in which case they obviously want to have their paper available broadly. > because otherwise that likely wouldn't have happened This is not true - there are open access fees at many publishers, and grant-funded labs regularly choose to pay these fees.