The following blog post is by Mark Delong.

Mark DeLong leads the information technology group at Duke University’s Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. He is particularly interested in harmonizing life sciences research processes with information technology and in emerging computation technologies including specialized computer processors, “cloud” computing, high performance computing, and development of high-throughput analysis systems. He and his group strongly advocate use of open source and open data. He studied philosophy as an undergraduate, and earned his PhD from Duke in English medieval and Renaissance literature and culture.

The opinions expressed by Mark are his own, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Lilly COI Team.

SPREADING THE WORD OR PREACHING TO THE CHOIR?

On Saturday evening after the third Sage Congress broke up, I wandered down to the Hyatt’s restaurant to mix with other stragglers and relax a bit. I met Jerry Matczak and Tom Krohn from Lilly Clinical Open Innovation, who had the same thing in mind.

“What did you think?” Tom asked, prodding me for a judgment of the event.

I had been wondering exactly what I thought ever since we wrapped things up that afternoon, and I paused and said, “I think it felt a little like a revival.”
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