The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has announced a new partnership with the Dryad Digital Repository. Dryad is a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.
To launch the partnership, AMIA is connecting the Dryad resource to the publication of a new Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) special focus issue on data science. The theme is 'Biomedical Data Science: Sharing Digital Objects to Accelerate Discoveries and Ensure Reproducibility of Results.' AMIA and Dryad hold similar values about making research data openly available, and JAMIA provides the opportunity to integrate data sharing with scholarly literature. JAMIA will now encourage data deposition to submitting authors using Dryad, which will provide a basic level of curation, assignment of a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), and long-term data storage.
The goal of the special focus issue is to accelerate research in data science by providing a forum for the latest innovations in biomedical data and software organisation, integration, and sharing in the context of biomedical research, healthcare, informatics, data science, or population health. The call for papers is now open, closes on May 15, and publishes in November 2017.
JAMIA Editor Dr. Lucila Ohno-Machado and Associate Editor, Dr. Michael Chiang lead the editorial team.
The Editors welcome papers addressing a range of topics associated with data science, including novel approaches for the organisation and analysis of -omics, clinical data, sensor data, and new data modalities. In addition to primary investigations applying advanced analytic pipelines to data already stored in repositories, desirable contributions also include the reports of full set of digital objects that are produced. These digital objects might include original data, software, software pipelines, containers, virtual machines, intermediary data, and metadata strategies that support FAIR principles. The call for papers provides greater detail.
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