STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced ten semi-finalists in The Elsevier Grand Challenge, a competition inviting the scientific community to prototype tools innovating how Life Sciences information is used in online text databases. The semifinalists were chosen by a distinguished panel of judges from among over 70 entries offering a range of approaches involving semantics, visualisation, protocols, social networks, and citations.
The Elsevier Grand Challenge: Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences is a contest created to improve the way scientific information is communicated and used. The contest seeks to generate useful new ideas that could have a widespread impact on scientific publishing in general.
The semi-finalists will be given access to more than half a million life science articles, including their images and supplementary files, to develop and refine their concept. They will present their work to the panel of judges who will select a small group of finalists.
Elsevier Grand Challenge Finalists, to be announced at the end of the year, will be invited to present their vision papers in a public symposium at which the panel of judges will announce the winners. The first place winner will be awarded a cash prize of US$35,000 and the second place winner a cash prize of US$15,000. Additionally, contestants may be offered the opportunity to develop their tools in collaboration with Elsevier.
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