I guess I "liked" it three or four times :) - Pawel Szczesny
Definitely should play into where things show up. If it's been liked and shared a lot then higher rank or something like that - Deepak
thanks, I am glad it was useful. It would be great to have a filtered view of the things our contacts liked or commented on recently. Specially when I am away from FF for a while it is hard to have look back. - Pedro Beltrao
I could be naive about the world of genome sequencing but it looks like one of the most open and collaborative bio-related sciences. The data is shared as it is produced and there are few competitive races (although there are famous examples). - Pedro Beltrao
Well, there is a lot of competition, but it seems to be healthy co-opetition (you should get the Broad and Sanger people in the same room). - Deepak
But in general I agree. The size of studies is just getting so large that people are willing to work together, contribute, etc etc - Deepak
There is certainly a healthy interest in one another's work, rather than straight up competition, especially with the newer sequencing technologies. - Matt Wood
Interesting question here - what would the journals do if someone took the data processed it and got the paper in before those doing the sequencing? Might ask that over at Nature Networks. - Cameron Neylon
I believe there may be a case or two where that has happened - need to check the archives. But once genome sequences are in public databases, why shouldn't anyone mine them and publish if they find something interesting? - Neil Saunders
No reason but given that the immediate release of data is more or less mandated I wondered whether there are examples of people being scooped and more to the point what the publisher position on attribution is. Might be a good case study. - Cameron Neylon
Scooping is certainly something that folks have on their mind: there is real competition there, and it has happened in the past. We now automatically release reads 60 days after they have been sequenced, but this has much more to do with ensuring quality. - Matt Wood
Although presumably you could do the same by discriminating on fluroescence lifetime? I haven't actually read the paper yet. - Cameron Neylon
Thanks for the tip. I am not sure the plate reader I have access to can measure the lifetime but I will have a look at it too. - Pedro Beltrao
Yeh, most plate readers don't have it as an obvious feature but sometimes you can get at it via the delay on fluorescence readout. Requires a lot of fiddling though and usually the control software doesn't allow you to sweep that as a parameter. Good luck! - Cameron Neylon
