Wide-Open: Accelerating public data release by automating detection of overdue datasets.
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SUBMITTER: Grechkin M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5464523 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
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Wide-Open: Accelerating public data release by automating detection of overdue datasets.
Grechkin Maxim M Poon Hoifung H Howe Bill B
PLoS biology 20170608 6
Open data is a vital pillar of open science and a key enabler for reproducibility, data reuse, and novel discoveries. Enforcement of open-data policies, however, largely relies on manual efforts, which invariably lag behind the increasingly automated generation of biological data. To address this problem, we developed a general approach to automatically identify datasets overdue for public release by applying text mining to identify dataset references in published articles and parse query result ...[more]
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