Life Science Tools of the Trade

Everyday I come home, I find more and more magazines in my mailbox. The latest magazine to show up at my doorstep is Bio-IT World. I’m not sure how I started getting the magazine but I now have a free subscription.

Most of the content doesn’t relate to basic research. The latest issue talks about software available for Medicinal Chemistry, eClinical submissions for the FDA and on-line databases and Web 2.0 technologies.  The articles on the different web sites got me thinking.

We know the number of science blogs on the net keeps growing and growing. We already also know that science social networking sites foster the exchange of ideas and are resources for technical questions and answers. That’s what SAB is - Scientists helping and meeting other scientists.

This is what I’m wondering… will these sites eventually result in the sharing of unpublished data? Will the time come when scientists feel comfortable enough to put their unpublished data on the web for everyone to see?

Would you put your data out there?