Can The "GitHub For Science" Convince Researchers To Open-Source Their Data?

Interview at Co.Labs: “Science has a problem: Researchers don’t share their data. A new startup wants to change that by melding GitHub and Google Docs…Nathan Jenkins is a condensed matter physicist and programmer who has worked at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. He recently left his post-doc program at New York University to cofound Authorea, a platform that helps scientists draft, collaborate on, share, and publish academic articles. We talked with him about the idea behind Authorea, the open science movement, and the future of scientific publishing.”