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...."

Link:

https://armacostlibrary.blogspot.com/2020/01/oa-coronavirus.html

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Tags:

oa.new oa.medicine oa.pharma oa.speed oa.data

Date tagged:

01/28/2020, 12:59

Date published:

01/28/2020, 07:59