Harold Varmus goes truly Open

Harold Varmus, one of the CoFounders of the Public Library of Science, has been featured on a NIH Profiles site. Through this site they are making a collection of his papers freely available. In addition, to co-founding PLOS, Varmus won one of those Nobel Prize thingies and was head of a little place called NIH.

Not that much is featured on the front pages. But if you go to the search page here you can search for all sorts of interesting stuff.

Some interesting ones I found:

• Letter from Us Information Agency relating to giving a talk in China after Nobel Prize.
• Notes on naming the AIDS virus
• Letter from Charlie Yanofsky (one of my favorite people in all of science) to a previous director of NIH regarding recombinant DNA
• Interesting letter to Luria about moving to MIT
  

I will post more when I have a chance but if anyone else sees interesting ones out there please post them too.