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As we learn from this rather poorly written article over at xconomy, "Biology has never really had a social-networking movement like open-source computing, where thousands of loosely-affiliated people around the world pool brainpower to make better software". If you translate that into what was needed for biology (or chemistry) according to the xconomy author, it would translate into a "social-networking movement where thousands of loosely affiliated people around the world pool brainpower to make better biology". Now, I leave it to you extremely bright guys out there to figure out why I think that already exists and how it is called. And even when you see it from a more IT-centric perspective, biology (in contrast to my own field, chemistry) has been at the forefront when it comes to data sharing, open source and open standards.