Anyone know how we HN readers can help this effort?
Is there some open source scientific community/repository like GitHub? (Where people can pull down the latest data and ideas, and add to them, then push our changes back to the main scientists.)
Is there some open source scientific community/repository like GitHub? (Where people can pull down the latest data and ideas, and add to them, then push our changes back to the main scientists.)
A repository of ideas from non-experts will probably slow down things rather than help them. I'm not dismissing the idea outright; perhaps there's a way structured inputs from patients and caregivers can be helpful (again with some review mechanism so that real researchers don't have to wade through irrelevant data.)
Most of the people in this thread have about as much reason to "share ideas" with cancer researchers as a 9 year old has to share ideas about your line-of-business form-over-data web application.