Archives

Categories

Tags

Things I Support




I Support the Public Library of Science

Patenting Systematics Revisited

Alex, an entomologist at the fabulous Myrmecos blog, was also infuriated by the news piece by Pennisi (subscription required) in the latest issue of Science. His take was slightly different than my take on it a couple days ago. Alex is most upset about the pending Microsoft patent claim on, according to the language of [...]

August 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Systematics | Leave a comment

Patenting Systematics

An interesting news piece came out today in the most recent issue of Science. Elizabeth Pennisi reports that systematists are up in arms over pending patents on methods that have been in place for dozens of years. Such as a novel

“… way to use biological data that has been organized according to evolutionary relatedness. [...]

August 8th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Systematics | 2 comments