Against dataism and for data sharing of big biomedical and clinical data with research parasites

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue AUG, 2016, Pages

  Emmert Streib, Frank ^a   Dehmer, Matthias ^b,c   Yli Harja, Olli ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomedical data; Clinical data; Computational biology; Data sharing; Genomics

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA SHARING; DATAISM; HEALTH CARE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOTE; PUBLICATION; WRITING;

EID: 84988317013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2016.00154     Document Type: Note

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