Open data and open access - A biomedical data- and text-mining perspective

Lars Juhl Jensen

Open data and open accessA biomedical data- and text-mining

perspective

>10 km

too much to read

even more data

unknown what is known

molecular biology

support for open science

public databases

data deposition required

open access publishing

integrative resources

data/text mining

knowledge overview

string-db.org

open licenses

medicine

Jensen et al., Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012

opposition to open science

clinical trial data hidden

“research parasites”

valid privacy concerns

direct benefits for patients

roadmap of diseases

Jensen et al., Nature Communications, 2014

6 million Danish patients

pharmacovigilance

Eriksson et al., Drug Safety, 2014

discover new ADRs

only 3,394 patients

imagine Europe-wide studies