Scientific Data and Nature Publishing Group’s open data initiatives have been presented to Japanese audiences through several recent events.

59th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Human Genetics

On 22 November, a luncheon seminar was arranged during the 59th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Human Genetics, co-sponsored by Japanese Society of Human Genetics (JSHG) and Nature Publishing Group. The seminar, ‘Scholarly Communication in Open Research era – open data and data deposition with example of Scientific Data and Human Genome Variation’, discussed trends in the open data movement that prompted the launch of two open access journals (Human Genome Variation is co-published by JSHG and Nature Publishing Group). Continue reading →