Focused research organisations: what are they, and how do you set them up?
FROs hope to create new scientific tools like AlphaFold, which has automated the prediction of protein structures. Photo credits: Burgstedt / BigStock Over the past few years, a new type of institution has entered the scientific scene: focused research organisations (FROs), which try to build new scientific software, databases and other tools in a rapid, five-year timeframe. So far,.