Open Science

the designs of the car will be released under an open source licence. This allows people to freely build on ideas and designs, speeding up innovation and enabling technologies to be quickly improved, meeting the needs of people rather than markets.

The collaboration includes researchers and experts from Mars, USDA-ARS, IBM, NCGR, Clemson University, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Indiana University, and Washington State University.

The results of their research will be made available through the Cacao Genome Database to ensure that the data remains perpetually open without patent.