the Oxford Scientist
Collaboration: Reforming Research M
ost researchers’ response to the word ‘collaboration’ is overwhelm‐ ingly positive. Many of the most influential scientific breakthroughs that have gone on to shape today’s scientific landscape have been the
product of collaborations: Gates and Allen, the Wright brothers, and Watson, Crick and Franklin, to name a few. The global value of collaboration can be seen best in worldwide projects such as the Human Genome Project, by far the world’s largest biological collab‐ orative effort. The project combined work from 20 universities in six countries to map the 92.1% of the human nucleotide sequence, with the work using pub‐ lic funding from the National Institutes of Health and multiple other interna‐ tional research groups. Alongside physical collaboration, software development has also aided a more inclusive scientific approach. The Open Science Framework (OSF), cre‐ ated in 2013 by the Center for Open Science, encourages the production of
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