oaklandwatch [soylentnews.org] writes:
GitHub and Amazon Web Services have joined
a new open source collaboration to speed up cancer research [sttrcancer.org]. "We cannot be competitors any more in cancer research because people die," said Jenny Zhang, a technician at the Seattle center
working with AWS [amazon.com] to create a portal to help doctors, researchers, and scientists pool information to recognize important patterns. "Cancer will be solved on the computer," says the center's director, in a GitHub blog post
calling for Open Source volunteers [github.com] in everything from CSS and D3 to robust implementations of new computational biology algorithms. One technology site describes the initiative's inspiring message as "Computers and programmers
can cure cancer [thenewstack.io] because the key to the cure lies in deciphering big data."
Original Submission
