New prize competition seeks innovative ideas to advance open science
The National Institutes of Health has partnered with Wellcome Trust to launch a global science competition for new products or services to advance “open science,” a movement to make research data accessible to the public. The goal of the Open Science Prize is to support the development of services, tools and platforms to ensure that big data can be used to advance discovery.
Up to six teams of technology experts and researchers will win $80,000 each to develop their prototype. The prototype with the greatest potential to further open science will receive $230,000.
