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Researchers agree on standard for data sharing across the world
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Over 50 collaborators at over 30 scientific organisations around the globe have agreed on a common standard that will make possible the consistent description of radically different databases compiled in fields ranging from genetics to stem cell science
The effort has its online presence at www.isacommons.org
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Open-access publisher
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
University of Oxford
stem cell science
data sharing
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30-Jan-2012
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Others - Data Management
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Researchers agree on standard for data sharing across the world
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Over 50 collaborators at over 30 scientific organisations around the globe have agreed on a common standard that will make possible the consistent description of enormous and radically different databases compiled in fields ranging from genetics to stem cell science, to environmental studies
The collaborators were led in this effort by researchers at the University of Oxford and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) at Harvard University
The new standard seeks to provide a way for scientists in widely disparate fields to coordinate each other's findings by allowing behind-the-scenes combination of the mountains of data produced by modern, technology driven science
This standard-compliant data sharing effort and the establishment of its online presence, the ISA Commons – www.isacommons.org, is described in a commentary published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Genetics
The commentary is signed by all the collaborators
ISA Commons is also being used at Harvard Medical School (HMS) by the HMS LINCS (Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures) project, led by Professors Peter Sorger and Timothy Mitchison
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ScoopeNews.pdf
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http://www.hsci.harvard.edu
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