 Hi, I'm Alice Williamson, and I'm a postdoc in Matthew Todd's group at the University of Sydney. We're working on an open source drug discovery project for the development of new medicines for the treatment of malaria, and we're finding huge benefits to working in the open. We post all of our experimental procedures online in real time to an electronic lab notebook, and additionally we post all of our raw data, be it spectral or biological, so that anyone can see it, and importantly they can use it for any purpose that they wish. Because all of our science is already in the public domain and not shrouded in secrecy, this leaves us free to ask for help and advice along the way. We've already received invaluable contributions from members of the scientific community who probably wouldn't have heard about our project if we were conducting it in a closed fashion. Quite simply, open science makes good sense.