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A Pledge That Promises To Keep Seeds Free For All To Use

Zoe Loftus-Farren | Earth Island Journal | July 22, 2014

...Inspired by the concept of open source software, a group of plant scientists and food activists, led by the University of Wisconsin, have launched the Open Source Seed Initiative – a campaign to protect the right of farmers, plant breeders and gardeners to share seeds freely...

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VirusDetect, a New Open Source Bioinformatics Pipeline for Virus Identification Released

Press Release | Boyce Thompson Institute | November 28, 2016

Researchers studying the viruses that affect agricultural production or human health now have a new tool for investigating where viruses have spread, on a local, national, or even global scale. VirusDetect is a free, open-source bioinformatics pipeline that can efficiently analyze small RNA (sRNA) datasets to identify both known and novel viruses. Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) Associate Professor Zhangjun Fei and colleagues present this pipeline in a recent paper in Virology...

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