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The European Bioinformatics Institute in 2016: Data growth and integration – Europe PMC Article – Europe PubMed Central
January 25, 2016Spurious Correlations
January 25, 2016.@fionabrinkman @BioMickWatson @iddux Spurious Correlations
(http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations) related to Stat Frankenstein (https://twitter.com/markgerstein/status/689478730343837696)
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet | Caltech
January 24, 2016Young, gifted and held back | The Economist
January 24, 2016Realizing Privacy Preserving Genome-wide Association Studies
January 24, 2016Best fitness trackers 2016: Jawbone, Misfit, Fitbit, Garmin and more
January 23, 2016Drones, Valor, and the Future of the Military – The Atlantic
January 23, 2016Research Parasites
January 23, 2016Dara sharing http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1516564 Deems #datascientists as “research parasites,” using another’s data for their own ends via @dspakowicz
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“A second concern held by some is that a new class of research person will emerge — people who had nothing to do with the design and execution of the study but use another group’s data for their own ends, possibly stealing from the research productivity planned by the data gatherers, or even use the data to try to disprove what the original investigators had posited. There is concern among some front-line researchers that the system will be taken over by what some researchers have characterized as “research parasites.””
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