DNACoin: guest post by DNA\/ID
The post is originally published here and is reproduced with permission. I have spent 15 years in academia and industry, created a startup, and am running a second one, dedicated to the progress of...
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2nd guest talk in Cambridge: Amy Tang from EBI – Data sharing & Open Science
It gives us great pleasure to invite you to our 2nd Guest Talk in Cambridge on the 7th of July at 7 pm at the Red Bull pub on Barton road. Our guest speaker...
Cancer Moonshot and the future of Precision Medicine
This guest post is by Emily Walsh, community outreach director at the Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance. The Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance, while focused on raising awareness for mesothelioma and bringing about the ban of asbestos, is working to...
Is sharing always caring? On open genomic data sharing and why people do it.
Originally published at Repositive blog and is reproduced with permission. Special thanks to Tobias Haeusermann1, (postdoctoral researcher at University of Zürich), and Bastian Greshake2 (co-founder of OpenSNP.org) for collaborating to write this guest blog...
What we didn’t know about Cuba: interview with Prof Rolando Rodriguez
Originally published on the Repositive blog and is reposted with permission. After a successful two weeks’ visit earlier this year, the Repositive team welcomes back Prof Rolando Rodriguez this week for a further two...
Reflections from my time with the Genomic Data Commons
This post is by Piers Nash – biochemist, data evangelist and futurist. Originally published on his personal blog and is reproduced with permission. I have spent the past 13 years at The University of...
DNAdigest interviews Atul Butte from UCSF
One of the speakers at BioData World West – Atul Butte – is well known for advocating open science. We highly recommend watching his talk on TEDMED where he shares his vision of the...
From PhD to Product Management – Life in a startup
A post by Charlotte Whicher, Product Manager at Repositive Ltd. Originally published here and reposted with permission. In the last couple of weeks I have been invited to attend two events for academic researchers...
GA4GH invites the community to contribute to their Ethics Review
If you have experience with navigating ethics reviews for international research projects, Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) invites you to answer this questionnaire, which consists of three questions. Here is the message...
DNAdigest interviews Megan Doerr from Sage Bionetworks
Megan Doerr is a Principal Scientist at Sage Bionetworks. She will be speaking at the BioData West Congress in April 2017. 1. Please introduce yourself, your background and your current role. My name is...
DNAdigest interviews Aubrey de Grey from SENS Research Foundation
Photo credit: https://goo.gl/images/0ZE1pV Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Mountain View, California, USA, and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation, a California-based biomedical research charity that performs...
