Comments on: Stephen Friend, Leaving High-Powered Merck Gig, Lights Fire for Open Source Biology Movement

By: Gig lights | Kikebalogun

Gig lights | Kikebalogun — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:20:22 +0000

[...] Stephen Friend, Leaving High-Powered Merck Gig, Lights Fire for Open[...] Stephen Friend, Leaving High-Powered Merck Gig, Lights Fire for Open Source Biology Movement Sage, as we first described back in March, is attempting to do for biology what Facebook and Twitter have done for social networking, and Linux has for open-source software. [...]

By: Open Source Biology Deserves a Shot | Empress of the Global Universe

Open Source Biology Deserves a Shot | Empress of the Global Universe — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:39:31 +0000

[...] emerge any other way. So he did something two years ago that most people would consider quixotic: He quit his high-powered job as a senior vice president of cancer research at Merck to go on a mission to disrupt [...]

By: Making the Web Work for Science | Open Culture

Making the Web Work for Science | Open Culture — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:21:46 +0000

[...] of O’Reilly Media, one of the leading tech publishers), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia Founder), Stephen Friend (founder of Rosetta Inpharmatics and former EVP at Merck Research Laboratories) and John [...]

By: Links 09/08/2009: DebConf9 Coverage, Firefox 3.6 Alpha | Boycott Novell

Links 09/08/2009: DebConf9 Coverage, Firefox 3.6 Alpha | Boycott Novell — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:38:59 +0000

[...] Stephen Friend, Leaving High-Powered Merck Gig, Lights Fire for Open Source Biology Movement Sage, as we first described back in March, is attempting to do for biology what Facebook and Twitter have done for social networking, and Linux has for open-source software. Sage is needed because biologists are beginning to see how vast networks of genes get perturbed in complex diseases like cancer, diabetes, and multiple sclerosis. [...]