The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the philanthropic investment vehicle created by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, M.D., will fund an effort to allows biologists to share drafts of papers before they are published in peer-reviewed scientific journals like Nature or Science. One thing that slows us down today is that it can take a year or longer to publish research in a scientific journal." “I'm absolutely delighted,” says Daniel MacArthur, group leader within the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit (ATGU) at Massachusetts General Hospital. It was created almost four years ago, and modeled off a similar effort, arXiv (“archive”) that is used by physicists. But the peer review process can take months or years, and in some fast-moving fields, like the effort to understand human genes, this can seem ponderously slow.

Source: Forbes April 26, 2017 19:01 UTC