Data sharing: Make outbreak research open access

A better way to crack the brain

“…Indeed it is largely this culture that hinders standardization and cooperation. The Human Genome Project opened up a more cooperative attitude towards data in the field of genetics 8 that has been reverberating ever since 9 . But the intricacy of what we are proposing -the complex coordination of experiments and immediate sharing of raw data -goes well beyond most open-science norms and will be challenging.…”

Zika Virus Infection: Current Concerns and Perspectives

“…The global health community of researchers should develop a framework of principles by themselves to improve international public health capacity for sharing data and biologic samples during any such public health emergency [101]. Key interventions such as appropriate clinical care and prevention of ZIKV transmission through sexual contact or blood transfusion need to be strengthened [102].…”

A Primer on Infectious Disease Bacterial Genomics

“…Infectious disease outbreaks have already led to adoption of HTS and warrant timely data generation, analysis, and sharing to intervene in order to stop the spread of infection and save lives (236,237). There are an increasing number of global outbreaks where accessible genomics data were vital to the investigation, due not only to the speed of data production but to the global-scale collaboration that was sparked by the data release.…”