Nominations are currently being accepted for the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences. This is a humanitarian award presented annually by Bioinformatics.org to an individual who has, in his or her practice, promoted open-access to the materials and methods used in the life sciences.
The ceremony for the presentation of the Award will be held at the 2018 Bio-IT World Conference + Expo in Boston (http://bio-itworldexpo.com/). Past laureates include Biostatistics Professor Rafael Irizarry in 2017.
For more information see the Franklin Award webpage:
