Envisioning data sharing for the biocomputing community

The Data Ring: Community Content Sharing

Information ubiquity has created a large crowd of users (most notably scientists), who could employ DBMS technology to process and share their data more effectively. Still, this user base prefers to keep its data in files that can be easily managed by applications such as spreadsheets, rather than deal with the complexity and rigidity of modern database systems. In this paper, we propose a visi...

The BioPAX community standard for pathway data sharing

Biological Pathway Exchange (BioPAX) is a standard language to represent biological pathways at the molecular and cellular level and to facilitate the exchange of pathway data. The rapid growth of the volume of pathway data has spurred the development of databases and computational tools to aid interpretation; however, use of these data is hampered by the current fragmentation of pathway inform...

Developing Governance for Federated Community-based EHR Data Sharing

Bi-directional translational pathways between scientific discoveries and primary care are crucial for improving individual patient care and population health. The Data QUEST pilot project is a program supporting data sharing amongst community based primary care practices and is built on a technical infrastructure to share electronic health record data. We developed a set of governance requireme...

Geneways for Biocomputing

Community Image Data Portal: Sharing Licensed Earth Observation Data

Usage and sharing of Earth Observation data are typically restricted by various licensing terms and conditions imposed by commercial data providers. Standards defining the protocols to transmit such data do not include any identification or security layer yet: they allow optimum software interoperability for sharing data available to the public, but they cannot ensure the required security for ...