Biology’s Data Barrier: Europe’s à la carte solution — PLOS Comp Biol Field Reports — Medium

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-07-23

Summary:

"Confidentiality, sense of proprietorship and exclusivity has long been a bottleneck in research dissemination. Gladly, recent years’ open science movements have managed to make some impact on that front. Thanks to various open science initiatives (i.e. ISCB Policy statement) an increasing number of funding bodies are now enforcing a requirement to publish open access articles and accessible data. New publishers and research consortia are emerging with offers to support the hosting of large data sets, which otherwise would be a burden on author’s part. Despite these motivations or otherwise pressures, data liberty is not yet a common practice. One initiative led by the KU University of Leuven is hosting an “à la carte” solution in addressing this issue. In a highlight track presentation in the recently concluded ISMB/ECCB 2015, KU Leuven’s researcher Amin Ardeshirdavan presented a scheme called 'NGS-Logistics' where researchers can freely share the results to start with, without compromising the confidentiality of the data. He identifies that, many researchers can be reluctant to publish or make their data accessible while others remain in complete darkness about mere existence of the data. (see video talk) ..."

Link:

https://compbiofieldreports.plos.org/biology-s-data-barrier-europe-s-%C3%A0-la-carte-solution-71e2a28a34a1

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Date tagged:

07/23/2015, 07:40

Date published:

07/23/2015, 03:40