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[Slide 16]
I've been working for the past couple of years with Harold Varmus and Michael Eisen to develop a practical business model for making the world's treasury of non-proprietary non-classified scientific knowledge freely available on the internet, and also raise funds for a non-profit organization devoted to that goal, which we call the Public Library of Science.
This organization has the goal of making the world's scientific literature freely available online to everyone in the world. We are going to be announcing its launch sometime in the next couple of weeks. So, I encourage you to watch out for this announcement.
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Then finally is the most important part of my talk. Everything that I've been telling about this morning has obviously been the work of an absolutely brilliant and wonderful group of students and colleagues who were working with me, and colleagues from around the world. Unfortunately I only have time to mention a few of them specifically that had specific roles in the work I presented this morning.
Dari Sharon, who was a talented graduate student in my lab, and Steve Smith, a colleague at Stanford, provided crucial engineering know-how and lots of trial and error to reduce the original ideas for this technology to practice.
Mark Schena and Dari carried out the first experiment in our lab to look at gene expression patterns using DNA microarrays.
Joe Derisi was the critical person in taking a sort of barely-working technology that we had initially in turning it into something that worked reliably, and could easily be distributed to the world.
Joe and Vishy Iyer pioneered a lot of the initial applications of DNA microarrays to important biological problems in my lab.
Mike Eisen, who is a just brilliant artist at computer programming, wrote most of the critical software that were used for data analysis.
And finally, David Botstein has been my colleague at Stanford for most of the past ten years and my scientific partner in most of those studies of cancer that I talked about today.
Ash, Max, Paul, Chuck, Jon and Gavin made important contributions that I didn't talk about in detail to the work that I described today.
Xin Chen, Sam So, S.T. Leung, and S. Y. Yuen, were the people who carried out the studies in gastric cancer that I talked about.
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Thank you very much.
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