Proponents of open source software are trying to make a case for using the collaborative approach to conquer the world’s most vexing medical problems. However, established practices of avoiding the spotlight and protecting vested interests in breakthrough results still hamper the collaborative process. This kind of proprietary work ethic leads to researchers arriving at similar discoveries independently. The possibility of pooling such research to go even further together is not a main priority among many researchers.

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