Publication: Microattribution and nanopublication as means to incentivize the placement of human genome variation data into the public domain

On July 23, 2012, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Microattribution and nanopublication as means to incentivize the placement of human genome variation data into the public domain

The advances in bioinformatics required to annotate human genomic variants and to place them in public data repositories have not kept pace with their discovery. Moreover, a law of diminishing returns has begun to operate both in terms of data publication and submission. Although the continued deposition of such data…

Publication: Solving Bottlenecks in Data Sharing in the Life Sciences

On June 18, 2012, Posted by , In Publications, By ,,,,,,,,,, , With Comments Off on Publication: Solving Bottlenecks in Data Sharing in the Life Sciences

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…