[Insight-developers] OPEN DATA: BioMed Central Blog : Sharing of knowledge - Making the best of research data

[Luis Ibanez]

"Sharing of knowledge - Making the best of research data"

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In his editorial published in Genome Medicine’s March issue, Section
Editor and CNRS Research Director Charles Auffray discusses the need for
improvement in the availability and sharing of research results, in
order to make the best of the wealth of knowledge currently available
and ensure this translates into better therapeutics and patient care.

While initiatives calling for data deposition, trial registration and
open access publications have moved the research community into a more
generalised sharing of research material, Professor Auffray highlights
the need for further progress on this front, and advocates the use of
unexploited experimental and clinical data currently held in public and
private institutions.

Readers are invited to join the debate and share their views on the
issues raised in this editorial by posting a comment on this blog entry.
http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/sharing_of_knowledge_making_the

Iratxe Puebla

Senior Editor, Genome Medicine