
Highlights of 2015: Blog Posts & Publications
2015 was a great year for DNAdigest! We organised more events, welcomed more volunteers to the team and increased our output of online communications and blog generation! It has been a joy to watch our followers and online community grow with us and as we approach the end of the year, we want to dedicate this blog post to looking back over 2015 and celebrate the achievements we made together! Blog Posts: April 8th – ‘Genomic Data Sharing – Ethical and Scientific Imperative’ We chose this guest post by Mahsa Shabani because it was one of the most popular blog posts from 2015. Here Mahsa discusses how sharing data via controlled-access databases has been seen as an answer to the identified privacy and legal complications of sharing data. While the structure, membership and procedure of access review varies across DAC’s, Mahsa warns that such access review mechanisms have rarely received attention. By establishing adequate oversight mechanisms on data sharing, progressive and reposonsible data use will be on the horizon. Read more . . . July 8th – ‘The Sharers’ Leaderboard: an h-index of data sharing’ We chose this guest post by Kate Hodesdon from Seven Bridges Genomics because it discusses the possibly of codifying best practices of […]