The joint Open PHACTS/GEN2PHEN workshop on “Solving Bottlenecks in Data Sharing in the Life Sciences” was held in Volendam, the Netherlands, on September 19 and 20, 2011, and was attended by representatives from academia, industry, publishing, and funding agencies. The aim of the workshop was to explore the issues that influence the extent to which data in the life sciences are shared, and to explore sustainability scenarios that would enable and promote “open” data sharing. Several key challenges were identified and solutions to each of these were proposed.

Raymond Dalgleish, Eva Molero, Richard Kidd, Mascha Jansen, Daniela Past, Anika Robl, Barend Mons, Carlos Diaz, Albert Mons, Anthony J Brookes

Full publication: Human Mutation, Volume 33, Issue 10, Pages 1494-1496, October 2012