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Data Matters: credit and quality of data (part II)

DataMatters_2Data Matters presents a series of interviews with three scientists who are amongst the most experienced in data sharing: Albert Heck, Head of the Netherlands Proteomics Center, Ioannis Xenorios, Director of Swiss-Prot and Brenton Greveley, Associate Director of the UConn Institute for Systems Genomics. Read on to see what they have to say about current practice and future of sharing data…

Albert_HeckAlbert Heck
Professor of Biomolecular Mass Spectometry and Proteomics, Utrecht University, the Netherlands and Head of the Netherlands Proteometics Centre – Professor Heck is used to data sharing and data repositories, as proteomics makes use of large data sets which are impossible for any one person to interpret. He asks how we can implement traceability to see how people actually use the data. Read the full interview ▶

 

ioannis GLS SIB 074Ioannis Xenarios
Director of Swiss-Prot and Vital-IT at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and Professor in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne – As Director of the Swiss-Prot Group, Professor Xenarios is part of a team which curates and safeguards data. He says: “There is a tendency to think that when data is generated it is the end of the story.” He believes that ensuring the data doesn’t languish unused in a repository is vital, and argues that reproducibility of research is actually much more important than the quality of data. Read the full interview ▶

Brenton_GraveleyBrenton Graveley
John and Donna Krenicki Professor in Genomics and Personalized Heathcare, Associate Director of the UConn Institute for Systems Genomics, Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology at UConn Health, Farmington, CT USA – Hailing from the historically more ‘open’ field of genomics, Professor Graveley is used to data sharing and data reuse. But he argues quality is an issue, and quality control is critical to the future of open science. Read the full interview ▶

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