The Scientific Data team are excited to be chairing a half-day conference, aimed at scientific researchers, at Nature Publishing Group’s UK headquarters this autumn. Free tickets for the event, ‘Publishing better science through better data’, have just been released. Continue reading
Isaac Kohane is a Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard Medical School, USA.
I work in the multidisciplinary field of bioinformatics, making use of large clinical and genomic datasets to identify signifiers for a variety of conditions with genetic links: autism, major depression, rheumatoid arthritis, type 2 diabetes. Genetics has been amongst the leaders for the sharing of data, although historically clinical data has not been aggregated and shared to the same extent. Continue reading