Digging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 26, 2011 5:06 PM EDT
New York Times; By John Markoff
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So-called Web 2.0 software, with its seamless linking of applications, has made it easier to share research findings, and that in turn has led to an explosion of collaborative efforts. The researchers decided to take what at the time was a large risk, and began to develop their code as an open-source software development project, meaning that it could be freely shared by the entire biological community.

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