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- Microsoft Co-Founder's Brain Institute Attracts Top Academic Researchers - People - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- On Sharing Quantitative Trait GWAS Results in an Era of Multiple-omics Data and the Limits of Genomic Privacy.
- Journal of Digital Humanities
- The Power of Open
- International research to speak one language
| Posted: 09 Apr 2012 05:30 AM PDT chronicle.com "Five hundred million dollars can buy a lot of basic scientific research. Last month, Paul G. Allen, who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, announced that he would give the Allen Institute for Brain Science, in Seattle, an additional $300-million, on top of $200-million he had already donated since 2003 to establish and run the facility. With that infusion, the institute is luring some of the country's leading neuroscientists....[Ricardo Dolmetsch, an associate professor of neurobiology at Stanford University] said university- and government-financed labs cannot afford the personnel and equipment to perform the multidisciplinary work that Mr. Allen wishes to encourage. Institute scientists expect to make their findings available to researchers around the world via freely accessible online databases...." |
| Posted: 08 Apr 2012 04:49 PM PDT American journal of human genetics, (28 Mar 2012) Abstract: Recent advances in genome-scale, system-level measurements of quantitative phenotypes (transcriptome, metabolome, and proteome) promise to yield unprecedented biological insights. In this environment, broad dissemination of results from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) or deep-sequencing efforts is highly desirable. However, summary results from case-control studies (allele frequencies) have been withdrawn from public access because it has been shown that they can be used for inferring participation in a study if the individual's genotype is available. A natural question that follows is how much private information is contained in summary results from quantitative trait GWAS such as regression coefficients or p values. We show that regression coefficients for many SNPs can reveal the person's participation and for participants his or her phenotype with high accuracy. Our power calculations show that regression coefficients contain as much information on individuals as allele frequencies do, if the person's phenotype is rather extreme or if multiple phenotypes are available as has been increasingly facilitated by the use of multiple-omics data sets. These findings emphasize the need to devise a mechanism that allows data sharing that will facilitate scientific progress without sacrificing privacy protection. |
| Posted: 08 Apr 2012 04:38 PM PDT journalofdigitalhumanities.org The Journal of Digital Humanities is a new peer-reviewed OA journal published by George Mason University's Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. |
| Posted: 08 Apr 2012 01:10 PM PDT thepowerofopen.org Use the link above to access the full text of “The Power of Open,” a publication from Creative Commons. The introduction written by Catherine Casserly, CEO of Creative Commons and Joi Ito, Board Chair of Creative Commons reads as folllows: “The world has experienced an explosion of openness. From individual artists opening their creations for input from others, to governments requiring publicly funded works be available to the public, both the spirit and practice of sharing is gaining momentum and producing results. Creative Commons began providing licenses for the open sharing of content only a decade ago. Now more than 400 million CC-licensed works are available on the Internet, from music and photos, to research findings and entire college courses. Creative Commons created the legal and technical infrastructure that allows effective sharing of knowledge, art and data by individuals, organizations and governments. More importantly, millions of creators took advantage of that infrastructure to share work that enriches the global commons for all humanity. The Power of Open collects the stories of those creators. Some are like ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative news organization that uses CC while partnering with the world’s largest media companies. Others like nomadic filmmaker Vincent Moon use CC licensing as an essential element of a lifestyle of openness in pursuit of creativity. The breadth of uses is as great as the creativity of the individuals and organizations choosing to open their content, art and ideas to the rest of the world. As we look ahead, the field of openness is approaching a critical mass of adoption that could result in sharing becoming a default standard for the many works that were previously made available only under the all-rights-reserved framework. Even more exciting is the potential increase in global welfare from the use of Creative Commons’ tools and the increasing relevance of openness to the discourse of culture, education and innovation policy. We hope that The Power of Open inspires you to examine and embrace the practice of open licensing so that your contributions to the global intellectual commons can provide their greatest benefit to all people.” |
| International research to speak one language Posted: 08 Apr 2012 11:50 AM PDT "Universities and researchers will be able to improve the efficiencies of their research and remove obstacles in their collaborations, thanks to a new strategic partnership between the UK and Canada. The Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI), a community-driven membership organisation founded in Canada, has invited JISC to be its first UK member. The two organisations will work together to advance a standard data dictionary for research and to advance a common global approach to research interoperability. CASRAI’s vision is for all research teams around the world to have a single authoritative and reusable 'file' on themselves and their projects and be able to quickly produce and exchange any information needed, without retyping....Josh Brown, JISC programme manager, adds, “...In just one example, imagine a universal 'auto-correct' that resolves terminologies between countries and disciplines and frees the researchers to focus on the concepts....” For datasets, JISC and CASRAI will work together...to explore how we can incorporate the discovery and accessibility of scientific datasets into the standard dictionary...." |
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