Organized by Michael Weiner, Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND), UCSF, and Olga Brazhnik, NCRR

The transfer of scientific data has emerged as a significant challenge, as datasets continue to grow in size and demand for open access sharing increases. Current methods for file transfer do not scale well for large files and can cause long transfer times. In this study we present BioTorrents, a website that allows open access sharing of scientific data…

Results are presented from the Data Curation Profiles project research, on who is willing to share what data with whom and when. Emerging from scientists’ discussions on sharing are several dimensions suggestive of the variation in both what it means ‘to share’ and how these processes are carried out. This research indicates that data curation services will need to accommodate a wide range….

Contemporary bioscience sometimes demands vast sample sizes and there is often then no choice but to synthesize data across several studies and to undertake an appropriate pooled analysis. This same need is also faced in health-services and socio-economic research. When a pooled analysis is required, analytic efficiency and flexibility are often best served by combining the individual-level data….

Blog by Peter Brantley, Executive Director for the Digital Library Federation. – The Digital Library Forum is sponsoring this forum to encourage academic, non-profit, and commercial parties to indicate interest and initiate the formation of partnerships in response to the NSF call for a DataNet: A Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network.

NEWSWEEK Cover Story, May 24, 2010 – How the road from promising scientific breakthrough to real-world remedy has become all but a dead end. Private foundations have veered away from the NIH model, requiring scientists to share data and do the nonsexy development work required after a discovery is made.

Rees is a principal scientist at Science Commons’ Neurocommons Project. A computer scientist, he worked in Millennium Pharmaceuticals’ computational biology group before joining Science Commons. At the company his work focused on large-scale curated protein interaction networks.

Wilbanks is the executive director of the Science Commons project at Creative Commons. Before taking on this role, he founded a bioinformatics company that developed semantic graph networks that could be used in the research and development of pharmacological products. Earlier Wilbanks worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.