Genealogy and genomics take their vows
Guest post by Brianne Kirkpatrick, MS, LGC, genetic counselor. Genomics research and genealogy have been dating for a few years now, and it seems that 2015 was the year they finally took their vows....
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Objections to data sharing don’t stand up to scrutiny
Who’s afraid of Open Date: Scientists’ objections to data sharing don’t stand up to scrutiny. Many scientists are still resisting data sharing calls. Whilst their concerns should be taken seriously, Dorothy Bishop doesn’t think the objections withstand...
GigaScience competition encourages community curation
This blog post was written by Scott Edmunds, Editor at GigaScience and originally published on the BioMed Central blog As part of this years BioCuration 2016 event in Geneva we are launching an annotation...
Genomic data sharing: How much oversight is necessary
This is a guest blog post by Mahsa Shabani, LL.B., LL.M., MA., a PhD Candidate at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Law, University of Leuven. Her research interests revolve around ethical, legal and social aspects of genetics...
GenomeConnect: connecting patients and researchers
This is a guest post by the GenomeConnect team. Patients with new genetic diagnoses are increasingly turning to social media and other web resources to try and find other families with the same genetic...
What Open Access is and what it is not
This is a guest post by Nancy Pontika, Open Access Aggregation Officer at the COnnecting REpositories (CORE) project, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University. What is Open Access and why is it useful? The scholarly...
Why do I want to share my genetic data?
This is a guest post by Craig Macpherson about why he wants to share his genetic data. He is the founder and editor of DNA Testing Choice, a reviews site for the DNA tests you...
What is so great about ICD -10?
This is a guest post about ICD -10 by Laura O’Donnell who writes on behalf of EHR, electronic health record experts at OmniMD. As of October 1, 2015 the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and...
Data sharing to support UK clinical genetics and genomics services
This is a guest post by Sobia Raza – a policy analyst specialising in data science at the PHG Foundation. Originally published here under the title “Responsible, proportionate data sharing for better and safer...
Highlights of 2015: Blog Posts & Publications
2015 was a great year for DNAdigest! We organised more events, welcomed more volunteers to the team and increased our output of online communications and blog generation! It has been a joy to watch our followers...
