Winners of the first Binary Battle Apps for Science Contest | Mendeley Blog

"Mendeley launched the API platform in April of 2010 with the hope that it would 1) spur innovation in the science ecosystem and 2) send a signal to others that opening up data benefits everyone. To date, more than 1000 developers have applied for API keys to build on top of that data. With the Binary Battle announcement, we hoped to carry open science further and by all accounts we did. Today we announce the winners of the 2011 Mendeley-PLoS Binary Battle....The overall grand prize of the 2011 Mendeley-PLoS Binary Battle, receiving $10,001 and $1,000 of Amazon AWS credits, goes to openSNP! With openSNP, you can share your personal genome from 23andMe or deCODEme to find the latest relevant research and let scientists discover new genetic associations....And Runner Up, receiving $5,000 and $500 of Amazon AWS credits, goes to PaperCritic! PaperCritic allows for post-publication peer review in an open environment. Rate papers, write critical reviews or read those from others....We wanted to give an extra prize for the top voted app that used both sets of APIs (openSNP uses both as well). The winner receives $1,000 and the best prize of all, a Parrot AR Drone Quadricopter. That prize goes to rOpenSci! rOpenSci provides R-based tools to facilitate Open Science; including R packages for both Mendeley and PLoS...."