By Jack Nash
20 August 2020
Separating the facts from fiction – It is time to silence the myths and shine a light on the truth about data sharing. In this piece, we cover all angles on the forms and types that data exists as; show you that help is available and who you can turn to for information and guidance; and how data sharing actually establishes and confirms ownership of your data via authorship.
By Guest Author
17 July 2020
Roser Vento, Wellcome Sanger Institute, designed CellPhoneDB, a novel repository of cells and their interactions, and applied this computational and genomics tool to study cellular connections from transcriptomics data. In this blog, Roser explains why CellPhoneDB is a unique database and why her team encourages fellow researchers to share their own cell interactions on the database.
By Guest Author
10 June 2020
A collaborative effort between behavioural scientists, computer scientists and systems architects is busy creating an online ‘Knowledge System’ for the Human Behaviour-Change Project. Emma Norris and Susan Michie introduce us to the project and share a sneak preview of the research that will be published in the collection.
By Guest Author
04 June 2020
Jana Hutter, a member of the Early Career Researcher Advisory Board for Wellcome Open Research, and an open data convert, who despite all the barriers she had to overcome, now sees open data as the best way forward for research. Here’s her story.
By Jack Nash
28 May 2020
On Open Data Day on 7th March, the Early Career Researcher Advisory Board (ECRab) for Wellcome Open Research joined the celebrations with the launch of our data sharing campaign. We want to grow a culture of data sharing by raising awareness, sharing information and developing discipline specific resources on data sharing to help all researchers shift to open science practices. In this blog, the ECRAB outline our plans and give a taste of things to come over the next year.
By Jack Nash
19 May 2020
Data sharing and COVID-19- the pandemic is changing the way scientists work and talk to each other. The Early Career Researchers advisory board at Wellcome Open Research discuss how COVID-19 is changing science.
By Guest Author
18 May 2020
This blog post is by King’s College London and was originally published on their site on 13th May. It is a story on Rosalyn Moran and her work on waves of infection and population immunity, published in the Covid collection on Wellcome Open Research.
By Guest Author
07 May 2020
Data suggests that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups are at increased risk of infection and death from COVID-19. So, researchers from UCL, London, explored the risk of death in minority ethnic groups in England using data reported by NHS England. Their research is published in the Coronavirus Collection on Wellcome Open Research and is awaiting peer review. Click on the link to read a copy of the press release by UCL to find out more about their analysis.