The Data Use Ontology to streamline responsible access to human biomedical datasets.

ABSTRACT: Human biomedical datasets that are critical for research and clinical studies to benefit human health also often contain sensitive or potentially identifying information of individual participants. Thus, care must be taken when they are processed and made available to comply with ethical and regulatory frameworks and informed consent data conditions. To enable and streamline data access for these biomedical datasets, the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Data Use and Researcher Identities (DURI) work stream developed and approved the Data Use Ontology (DUO) standard. DUO is a hierarchical vocabulary of human and machine-readable data use terms that consistently and unambiguously represents a dataset's allowable data uses. DUO has been implemented by major international stakeh

SUBMITTER: Lawson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8591903 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature