Bio-IT World October 12, 2020
The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Virtual launched last week with an opening plenary keynote from Drs. Susan Gregurick, Associate Director for Data Science at NIH and Rebecca Baker, Director of the HEAL Initiative at NIH.
Gregurick opened the first virtual Bio-IT World event by painting a picture of the industry poised at the starting line of FAIR—findable, accessible, interoperable and reproducible—data. Wouldn’t it be wonderful, she said, if we could pull data out of papers immediately into our own Jupyter Notebooks, Galaxy, or apply GitHub algorithms?
Of course, that is rarely possible now. Instead, a large fraction of data we generate and publish is left on the table, she said. Measuring and quantifying data use and reuse is...