[BOAI] Brief ZettaScience Update

[Iryna Kuchma]

[Forwarding from Louis Kirby at ZettaScience]


*ZettaScience update*

This is the first of a series of monthly updates about ZettaScience. This
covers a lot of ground for those of you with whom we have not spoken for a
while.

*Overview:* ZettaScience intends to accelerate innovation worldwide. We
will do this through an integrated online offering of rich, well-curated
scientific data and tools that allow global collaboration, analysis,
computation, and publishing of data. We believe that faster innovation
comes from sharing data and not hoarding data and further, that cross
disciplinary data and collaboration is far more likely to yield significant
discoveries than from within a discipline. ZettaScience is organized to
realize the principles in a global sustainable environment.

*Current objectives:*
1. We are identifying like-minded senior academicians and executives who
share our passion for open science and the goals of ZettaScience to join
our advisory board. We are currently interested in adding senior level
foundation executives, senior level university administrators and overseas
representatives to this board.
2. We are continuing to validate our revenue assumptions for the ZS
business model. As it is currently modeled, we have positive cash flow by
the end of the third year.
3. We are completing a list of potential strategic partners who can help
with funding and marketplace impact.

*Update:*
* *
*Advisory Board: *We are very pleased to announce the initial advisors to
ZettaScience:
·  Robert Allen, JD who is a Harvard lawyer with vast business experience
in IP and high technology.
·  Robert Understein, experienced in accountancy and capital formation who
has deep experience in business and in Washington, DC.
·  Maryann Martone, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience at UCSD and is the
Principal Investigator of the Neuroscience Information Framework
(Neuinfo.org).
·  William (Bill) Mobley, MD, PhD is the Chair and Distinguished Professor
of Neurosciences at UCSD School of Medicine and an outstanding Alzheimer’s
disease researcher.
·  Dr. Michael Norman, the director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center
 and Distinguished Professor of Physics.

*Our web site *(www.ZettaScience.com) has been recently refreshed with our
new logo, several articles and a list of our advisory board and supporters.
We have written articles on  *Distributed Innovation* – *the Fifth Paradigm
of Science and The ZettaScience* *Principles of Open Science*. We have
included information on the goals and mission of ZettaScience and an
overview of DataVer, as described below.

*DataVer.* Part of the financial model involves a division called DataVer,
which is described in more detail on the web site. DataVer will perform
independent compliance verification of data requirements set by the funding
agencies including a separate rating for data sharing.

*Technology. *We have identified key technology from the Neuroscience
Information Framework (NIF) (www.neuinfo.org <http://www.neuinfo.org>  <
http://www.neuinfo.org> ). Its key components will form the core of
ZettaScience. In particular, they have an advanced search capability
tailored for scientific resources and data. It is far more powerful in its
current iteration for neuroscience than anything otherwise available.
Importantly, it allows search within the data as well as for the data that
we plan to offer as a means of desktop scientific discovery.

NIF also has important capabilities in data federation and already has
compiled and curated the most extensive data offerings in neuroscience on
the web. With their semi-automated data curation capabilities we will be
able to ingest and search vast quantities of data and other resources in a
commercially feasible manner. NIF currently serves as an operating
demonstration of the viability of the technology.
*
**Supporters: *We have spoken to many people over the last several months
and we wish to both acknowledge them (you!) for their help and
contributions on our path. We will add their names and titles with a short
bio if desired to the ZettaScience web site. We are still in the process of
contacting them for permission to list their names on the ZettaScience web
site.

*Initial Funding*
In cooperation with the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) we have
written and plan to submit an STTR grant for the initial technology
transfer of the NIF technology into a commercial and scalable IT
architecture. Barring definitive funding before the August fling deadline,
we will file the grant, which asks for in excess of $750,000. This seed
money will result in a demonstration project separate from the NIF.

We have lots to do yet but we hope you can see the significant progress
made over the last several months. Please keep us in mind as data sharing,
open science and innovation come up in discussions or your thoughts.


Louis

Louis Kirby, MD

klouis2 at cox.net

Cell: 602 908-1680

Fax: 602 957-4053
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