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Full article title Ten simple rules for cultivating open science and collaborative R&D
Journal PLOS Computational Biology
Author(s) Masum, Hassan; Rao, Aarthi; Good, Benjamin M.; Todd, Matthew H.; Edwards, Aled M.; Chan, Leslie; Bunin, Barry A.; Su, Andrew I.; Thomas, Zakir; Bourne, Philip E.
Author affiliation(s) Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, Results for Development Institute, Scripps Research Institute, University of Sydney, University of Toronto, Collaborative Drug Discovery, Scripps Research Institute, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, University of California San Diego
Primary contact Email: hassan dot masum at utoronto dot ca
Year published 2013
Volume and issue 9(9)
Page(s) e1003244
DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003244
ISSN 1553-7358
Distribution license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Website http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003244
Download http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003244&type=printable (PDF)

Introduction

How can we address the complexity and cost of applying science to societal challenges?

Open science and collaborative R&D may help.[1][2][3] Open science has been described as "a research accelerator."[4] Open science implies open access[5] but goes beyond it: "Imagine a connected online web of scientific knowledge that integrates and connects data, computer code, chains of scientific reasoning, descriptions of open problems, and beyond ... tightly integrated with a scientific social web that directs scientists' attention where it is most valuable, releasing enormous collaborative potential."[1]

Open science and collaborative approaches are often described as open-source, by analogy with open-source software such as the operating system Linux which powers Google and Amazon — collaboratively created software which is free to use and adapt, and popular for internet infrastructure and scientific research.[6][7] However, this use of "open source" is unclear. Some people use "open source" when a project's results are free to use, others when a project's process is highly collaborative.[4]

It is clearer to classify open source and open science within a broader class of collaborative R&D, which can be defined as scalable collaboration (usually enabled by information technology) across organizational boundaries to solve R&D challenges.[8]

Many approaches to open science and collaborative R&D have been tried.[1][9] The Gene Wiki has created over 10,000 Wikipedia articles, and aims to provide one for every notable human gene.[10] The crowdsourcing platform InnoCentive has reportedly facilitated solutions to roughly half of the thousands of technical problems posed on the site, including many in life sciences such as the $1 million ALS Biomarker Prize.[11] Other examples include prizes (X-Prize[12]), scientific games (FoldIt[13]), and licensing schemes inspired by open-source software (BIOS[14]).

Funding

This article was made possible by support to HM and AR from a grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Results for Development Institute. The funders had no role in the preparation of the manuscript.

Competing interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Notes

This presentation is faithful to the original, with only a few minor changes to presentation. In some cases important information was missing from the references, and that information was added. In a few cases, the URLs from 2013 were dead; they were updated with current URLs, and, when applicable, archived URLs from the Internet Archive.