Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics)
# Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics)

The Benjamin Franklin Award is an annual award for Open Access in the Life Sciences presented by Bioinformatics.org to an individual who has, in his or her practice, promoted free and open access to the materials and methods used in the life sciences.

## Laureates

Source: bioinformatics.org

* 2002 - Michael B. Eisen
* 2003 - Jim Kent
* 2004 - Lincoln D. Stein
* 2005 - Ewan Birney
* 2006 - Michael Ashburner
* 2007 - Sean Eddy
* 2008 - Robert Gentleman
* 2009 - Philip E. Bourne
* 2010 - Alex Bateman
* 2011 - Jonathan Eisen
* 2012 - Heng Li
* 2013 - Steven Salzberg
* 2014 - Helen M. Berman
* 2015 - Owen White
* 2016 - Benjamin Langmead
* 2017 - Rafael Irizarry
* 2018 - Desmond G. Higgins
* 2019 - Eugene Koonin
* 2020 - Xiaole Shirley Liu
