Day: 22 July 2015

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Events

DNAdigest symposium: incentives for data sharing – London, 21/08/2015

A medical doctor may be inspired to help people recover from injury and disease, a scientific researcher may be inspired by the opportunity to provide new insights to the world, but in their daily work what inspires the activities of a researcher? Many voices in the research community are talking about what the best practices for efficient and ethical data sharing should be in order to enable reproducible research, more reliable results, and faster diagnostics. But what use is the identification of best practices if we do not know what incentives will drive the research community to adopt them? Register for the DNAdigest symposium – August 21 from 9:30am at 3rd floor Shropshire House, 10-12 Capper Street, London At this DNAdigest symposium, we are inviting researchers, clinicians, patients, policy makers and the medical genomics community to discuss:  “How can we incentivise best practices for data sharing in genomics?”  The agenda will contain presentations giving different perspectives on data sharing and incentives, including presentations from Wellcome Trust (the largest research funder in the UK), bioethicists, data citation experts, and from the individual researchers. — SCHEDULE — 9:30 Arrivals (Tea/coffee is available) 9:45-10:00 Introduction to DNAdigest and the outline for the day Part I “Multiple perspectives on data […]

Interviews

DNAdigest interviews ELIXIR

This week we are interviewing Niklas Blomberg from the ELIXIR project. 1. Please provide a short introduction to the work of ELIXIR? What are the aims and the mission of the project? ELIXIR is Europe’s response to the challenges of big data in life science research. Over the recent years, the amount of data produced by life science experiments increased exponentially and it has been estimated that by 2020 these data will be generated at up to one million times the current rate. ELIXIR’s goal is to orchestrate the collection, quality control and archiving of these data across Europe. For the first time, ELIXIR is creating an infrastructure that integrates research data from all corners of Europe and ensures a seamless service provision that is easily accessible to all.  ELIXIR’s services – biological data resources, tools, infrastructure, standards, compute and training – will benefit not only bioinformaticians and computational biologists, but also geneticists, biochemists, clinical specialists, and plant, environmental and marine scientists, both in academia and industry. 2. What does ELIXIR’s structure and legal framework look like? Rather than concentrating all of the expertise and resources in one place, ELIXIR has a distributed structure based on a hub and nodes […]

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