simonster ,thanks for the comment. You touched on a lot of the reasons why we are building Algorithmia.com. If we can remove the barrier to getting the code up

simonster ,thanks for the comment. You touched on a lot of the reasons why we are building Algorithmia.com. If we can remove the barrier to getting the code up and running we believe more people will get access and use innovative scientific code. The competition between labs is an interesting point. In a non- academic world we would see competition as good: better results, algorithm optimizations etc. Sadly I can see this as a deterrent to publishing code in the academic world though.