ISCB’s initial reaction to New England Journal of Medicine editorial on data sharing

ISCB's Initial Reaction to The New England Journal of Medicine Editorial on Data Sharing

The recent editorial by Drs. Longo and Drazen in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) [1] has stirred up quite a bit of controversy. As Executive Officers of the International Society of Computational Biology, Inc. (ISCB), we express our deep concern about the restrictive and potentially damaging opinions voiced in this editorial, and while ISCB works to write a detailed response, we felt...

Strengthening Research through Data Sharing.

Information sharing systems and teamwork between sub-teams: a mathematical modeling perspective

Teamwork contributes to a considerable improvement in quality and quantity of the ultimate outcome. Collaboration and alliance between team members bring a substantial progress for any business. However, it is imperative to acquire an appropriate team since many factors must be considered in this regard. Team size may represent the effectiveness of a team and it is of paramount importance to de...

Data Sharing.

The aerial view of the concept of data sharing is beautiful. What could be better than having high-quality information carefully reexamined for the possibility that new nuggets of useful data are lying there, previously unseen? The potential for leveraging existing results for even more benefit pays appropriate increased tribute to the patients who put themselves at risk to generate the data. T...

Why are the impacts of the leading medical journals so similar and yet so different? Item-by-item audits reveal a diversity of editorial material

The following articlel was published in the Anndr of Internal Medicine last year and is reprinted here in an abridged form with the permission of that journal, Using the 1981 and 1982 Science Citation Index@ (SCP ) and other citation data, we examined in detail the top 5 of 78 general and internal medicine joumds-Annals of Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal, i%e Journal of the American ...