Prepublication data sharing

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 461; no. 7261; pp. 168 - 170
• Main Authors: Birney, Ewan, Hudson, Thomas J, Green, Eric D, Gunter, Chris, Eddy, Sean, Rogers, Jane, Harris, Jennifer R, Ehrlich, S Dusko, Apweiler, Rolf, Austin, Christopher P, Berglund, Lisa, Bobrow, Martin, Bountra, Chas, Brookes, Anthony J, Cambon-Thomsen, Anne, Carter, Nigel P, Chisholm, Rex L, Contreras, Jorge L, Cooke, Robert M, Crosby, William L, Dewar, Ken, Durbin, Richard, Dyke, Stephanie O M, Ecker, Joseph R, El Emam, Khaled, Feuk, Lars, Gabriel, Stacey B, Gallacher, John, Gelbart, William M, Granell, Antoni, Guarner, Francisco, Hubbard, Tim, Jackson, Scott A, Jennings, Jennifer L, Joly, Yann, Jones, Steven M, Kaye, Jane, Kennedy, Karen L, Knoppers, Bartha Maria, Kyrpides, Nikos C, Lowrance, William W, Luo, Jingchu, MacKay, John J, Martín-Rivera, Luis, McCombie, W Richard, McPherson, John D, Miller, Linda, Miller, Webb, Moerman, Don, Mooser, Vincent, Morton, Cynthia C, Ostell, James M, Ouellette, B F Francis, Parkhill, Julian, Raina, Parminder S, Rawlings, Christopher, Scherer, Steven E, Scherer, Stephen W, Schofield, Paul N, Sensen, Christoph W, Stodden, Victoria C, Sussman, Michael R, Tanaka, Toshihiro, Thornton, Janet, Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko, Valle, David, Vuorio, Eero I, Walker, Neil M, Wallace, Susan, Weinstock, George, Whitman, William B, Worley, Kim C, Wu, Cathy, Wu, Jiayan, Yu, Jun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 10.09.2009; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Access to Information; Cooperative Behavior; Guidelines as Topic; Human Genome Project; Human subjects; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Information dissemination; Information sharing; Life sciences; MEDICIN; MEDICINE; Meetings; multidisciplinary; Ontario; opinion; Proteomics; Publishing - ethics; Publishing - standards; Research - standards; Research Personnel - ethics; Research Personnel - standards; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Studies; Ontario
• ISSN: 0028-0836; 1476-4687; 1476-4687
• DOI: 10.1038/461168a

At a time when advances in DNA sequencing technologies mean that many more laboratories can produce massive data sets, and when an ever-growing number of fields (beyond genome sequencing) are grappling with their own datasharing policies, a Data Release Workshop was convened in Toronto in May 2009 by Genome Canada and other funding agencies. In Toronto, attendees endorsed the value of rapid prepublication data release for large reference data sets in biology and medicine that have broad utility and agreed that prepublication data release should go beyond genomics and proteomics studies to other data sets - including chemical structure, metabolomic and RNA interference data sets, and to annotated clinical resources (cohorts, tissue banks and case-control studies).