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News:Call For Nominations: 2013 Benjamin Franklin Award

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Pierre Lindenbaum 164k

We are now accepting nominations for the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences. This is a humanitarian award presented annually by the Bioinformatics Organization (Bioinformatics.Org) to an individual who has, in his or her practice, promoted open-access to the materials and methods used in the life sciences.

Source: http://www.bioinformatics.org/franklin/

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Istvan Albert 102k

Voting now open at http://www.bioinformatics.org/franklin/vote/2013/

I was pleased to see that nominees now include Aaronquinlan one of our top users here at Biostar!

Congrats to Aaron Quinlan on a well deserved nomination!

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lh3 33k

Steven Salzberg received the 2013 Franklin Award. Well deserved. Congrats to him!

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Thanks Dr. Li for the wonderful news. Other than being an integral part in the development of great bioinformatics software including bowtie, glimmer, tophat, cufflinks etc., he has always been an active supporter for open source journals and teaching of evolution in schools. Well deserved.

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Well deserved, Dr. Salzberg has been a vocal promoter of open science, tools and techniques

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