NVIDIA Discovers Altruism via Open Protein Datasets

NVIDIA has joined forces with Google and other research giants to release open protein datasets, hoping to give humanity a head start on the next inevitable pathogen.

• Tech monopolies are collaborating on biology, which sounds either noble or like the setup for a dystopian sci-fi franchise.
• Open protein datasets remove commercial friction from pandemic prep, though the PR benefit for NVIDIA is a nice bonus.
• Having this data ready means researchers might actually design vaccines before the next global panic sets in.

Why should I care? Could be big
Open science from big tech is nice in theory, but let us see if the data remains genuinely accessible when things get commercially spicy.

Read the original: How Open Science Can Help Researchers Prepare for the Next Pandemic