Wall Street Journal signals advance in data sharing at Sage Commons Congress

The online version of the Wall Street Journal has recently published an article by Amy Dockser Marcus which highlights the weaknesses in the current approach to scientific data sharing and their effect upon the efficacy of even a highly expensive project such as the development of a new drug.

Entitled My Data, Your Data, Our Data, the article points to the ground-breaking work of Dr Stephen Friend, who has founded Sage Bionetworks, a new, not-for-profit medical research organisation, which encourages a new culture of data sharing. The article applauds the aims of the recent Sage Commons Congress in promoting greater collaboration and effectiveness.

Liz Lyon, Associate Director, DCC, led the workstream on Citation of Network Models and Associated Data. The slides from her presentation are now available.