PolITiGenomics

Politics, Information Technology, and Genomics

Open access under attack

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in genomics, politics | 8 Comments »

Since Congress voted to encourage NIH to adopt an open access policy for scholarly publications that resulted from research it funded, the journal publishers have lobbied Congress to reverse it. ... Read more..

reCAPTCHA on comments

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in IT, charity, genomics, politics | No Comments »

I've been getting a lot of spam comments on the blog so I added a CAPTCHA to comment posting. Specifically, I have added CAPTCHA's from the reCAPTCHA project which ... Read more..

Patenting the A-Bomb

Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in politics | No Comments »

As you may have intuited from some previous posts, I am a big proponent of free software (or free/libre/open source software (FLOSS)). For many involved in this arena, the ... Read more..

Creative Commons

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in IT, genomics, politics | 2 Comments »

All original content on this blog is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. That means you are free to use, share, remix, etc. the content of ... Read more..