David Wishart was has been announced as one of only 5 finalists in the 2015 Benjamin Franlikn Award.
"The Benjamin Franklin Award is a humanitarian/bioethics award presented annually by Bioinformatis.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... David Wishart has been actively developing and promoting open access databases and webservers since 1998. David led the Human Metabolome Project (HMP), and his group has created and currently maintains more than 60 different open-access bioinformatics resources covering areas such as metabolomics, structural biology, biomolecular NMR, drug discovery, toxicology, metagenomics, pathway analysis and microbiology."
- Bio-IT World Staff