CONTEXT: An opinion piece on the value of data sets in biomedical and neuroimaging studies, but only where they are compatible | When we still don’t have a common charger for our most precious commodity, the smart phone, how are we ever going to get our data together? |
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READ TIME: 5 mins
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1. “Such efforts often require involved parties to hash out lengthy data usage agreements, a process that may take months or years to be finalized, slowing research and innovation.”
2. “To eliminate such entry barriers to collaborative neuroimaging research projects in particular, we have created an open-source platform called COINSTAC that automates analysis and model training via decentralized data.”
3. “We invite scientists and developers from around the world, who share our vision of borderless research that protects privacy, to contribute to raising visibility of these efforts, reflect on the impact of data sharing and policy implications, or contribute to our open-source project or to other similar projects.”
4. “Together, we can generate a network effect in neuroimaging research and perhaps in other fields to enable privacy-preserving and frictionless collaboration to produce models and analyses made possible only by access to large datasets.”
5. “Decentralized analysis frameworks such as COINSTAC complement existing open data initiatives and will propel team science to a new level, unleashing a wealth of research and discovery in human brain imaging that is currently not possible.”
Source URL: https://www.the-scientist.com/critic-at-large/opinion-toward-better-data-sharing-68410