OA & the Coronavirus
peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-01-28
Summary:
"Here's a rough timeline so far.
- December 31, 2019: The World Health Organization (WHO) learns of Wuhan's string of pneumonia-like cases.
- January 10, 2020: Researchers in China release the genomic sequence of the Wuhan coronavirus to GenBank, an OA repository and database from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- January 11, 2020: Andrew Mesecar, biology professor at Purdue, redirects his lab to analyze the DNA sequence; scientists from NIH's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana takes steps to study the sequence in their labs.
- January 22, 2020: NIH scientists publish a preprint of their analysis in bioRxiv, a preprint OA repository. About twelve hours later, scientists in China confirm that analysis...."