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“When we planned this study, our team decided to make our work as open and transparent as possible, and writing the paper on Authorea is part of that,” said co-lead author Daniel Park of the Broad Institute. “We felt a moral imperative to put everything out there, especially in this kind of emergency situation.”  Authorea was founded to make researchers' day-to-day tasks easier and faster, says Authorea co-founder and Harvard Research Associate Alberto Pepe. "We realized we were wasting time emailing around documents and data, and wrestling with "Track Changes" in Word. data.  So we built a website where everyone from our team could write and edit in the same place. That was the beginning of Authorea." But Authorea also supports a bigger goal: making science more open. The platform is free to use for open research. "We encourage scientists to publish their entire research process: writing, data, and discussion," said Dr. Pepe. "The default stance is often to be closed; we want to encourage more openness and transparency."