{"id":14005,"date":"2018-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2019.dash.org\/2018\/06\/13\/dash-puts-science-research-on-the-blockchain\/"},"modified":"2021-09-18T11:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:37:13","slug":"science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dash.org\/news\/science\/","title":{"rendered":"Dash Puts Science Research On The Blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new cryptocurrency project is planning to reinvent academic publishing, and help students get very \u201chigh\u201d grades indeed. The Dash Decentralized Autonomous Organization, which dispenses community funds for the fourteenth-largest cryptocurrency, recently voted to begin funding for a project that will publish a cannabis genome to a blockchain \u2013 and reward scientists for peer review.<\/p>\n<p>Why publish a genome to the blockchain? It helps prevent agribusiness from claiming a patent to the genome in the future, is the short answer. And by committing science projects to the chain, the hope is that genuine scientific research won\u2019t be usurped by either corporations or patent trolls, since the ledger is immutable and transparent. In the USA, where civil lawsuits usually end up with each side paying its own costs, the blockchain could be a huge win for scientists looking to prove the originality of their research before the matter ever gets to a patent fight.<\/p>\n<p>Last month the DAO approved the first of five monthly payments of\u00a0\u00a030 Dash ($<a href=\"http:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/currencies\/dash\">8098<\/a>\u00a0USD). According to the proposal, the funds will be used to \u201csequence a controversial Cannabis genome and publish it using a novel crypto-incentivized, crypto-recorded peer review process that will cut out the $25B Scientific publishing market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latter goal is likely to resonate in academia, where publishers have a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptobriefing.com\/amp\/blockchain-publishing-corporate-dominance-science\">captive and very lucrative market<\/a>. Although universities are notionally non-profit, publishing is a different story, and the next time you complain about student loans, save some of the blame for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20151103\/15475732708\/not-just-academics-fed-up-with-elsevier-entire-editorial-staff-resigns-en-masse-to-start-open-access-journal.shtml\">Elsevier<\/a>. Neither publishers, reviewers nor editors are paid, and the savings are passed on to the universities in journal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2012\/apr\/24\/harvard-university-journal-publishers-prices\">subscriptions<\/a>. \u201cPretty much the only link between academic publishing and your bank account is the fact that you won\u2019t get a job if you don\u2019t publish,\u201d one underpaid scholar\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nickhop.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/20\/a-few-things-youve-always-wanted-to-know-about-academic-publication-but-were-too-afraid-to-ask\/\">complained<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeer review is broken,\u201d writes Kevin McKernan, the author of the proposal, in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinalgenomics.com\/crypto-funded-public-genomics\/\"><em>Medicinal Genomics<\/em><\/a>\u00a0blog. \u201c50% of Scientific manuscript\u2019s experiments can\u2019t be reproduced. The journals with the higher impact factor have a higher retraction rate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the genomics proposal will pioneer a novel system of incentivized peer reviews, based on the Dash blockchain. The genome sequence will be coded to the blockchain, along with cryptocurrency rewards for peer reviewers. \u201cCrypto-incentivized, blockchain transparent peer review will dis-intermediate this market and re-align the incentive models for higher accuracy, more transparency and \u2026..<\/p>\n<p>Full Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptobriefing-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/cryptobriefing.com\/amp\/dash-science-research-blockchain\">https:\/\/cryptobriefing-com.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/cryptobriefing.com\/amp\/dash-science-research-blockchain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new cryptocurrency project is planning to reinvent academic publishing, and help students get very \u201chigh\u201d grades indeed. The Dash Decentralized Autonomous Organization, which dispenses community funds for the fourteenth-largest cryptocurrency, recently voted to begin funding for a project that will publish a cannabis genome to a blockchain \u2013 and reward scientists for peer review.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dash Puts Science Research On The Blockchain - Dash<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dash.org\/news\/science\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dash Puts Science Research On The Blockchain - Dash\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new cryptocurrency project is planning to reinvent academic publishing, and help students get very \u201chigh\u201d grades indeed. 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