Athens, Ga. — This fall researchers at the Georgia Museum of Natural History at the University of Georgia will help lead an effort to digitize around 2.1 million specimens from the order Lepidoptera — moths and butterflies — and to make
that data available to scientists studying climate, natural habitats and agricultural pests.
This fall researchers at the Georgia Museum of Natural History at the University of Georgia will lead an effort to digitize around 2.1 million specimens from the order Lepidoptera — moths and butterflies — and to make
that data available to scientists studying climate, natural habitats and agricultural pests.
I realized then that we needed to do something not only to make all that
data available to scientists but also to enable scientific discovery from all that information.»
Not exact matches
So, IBM's strategy is
to use Watson, armed with its super-computing abilities and artificial intelligence,
to help give doctors and
scientists in the research process an informed «second opinion» by scouring the
available data, as Rhee puts it.
Much of that
data is
available on its website and is part of the toolkit
scientists use
to study the health, safety, and future of the planet.
The agency's trove of satellite
data and analysis is the largest in the world and, critically,
available freely on the internet for any
scientist or interested person
to access.
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Science organizations urged the Trump administration
to appoint
scientists to scientific advisory committees and
to make
data publicly
available.
Six - day summer immersion workshops are also
available for high school students
to follow a line of scientific inquiry in a lab setting, analyze
data, discuss the ethics of scientific research, and present their findings
to their peers and
scientist - advisors.
Therefore,
scientists are using increasingly refined statistical methods
to extract more and more information from the
available data sets.
That
data will be made publicly
available to help
scientists prepare for future virus outbreaks — or, ideally,
to quash threats as they emerge.
After analyzing reams of publicly
available data on casualties from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and decades of terrorist attacks, the
scientists conclude that «insurgents pretty much seemed
to be following a progress curve — or a learning curve — that's very common in the manufacturing literature,» says physicist Neil Johnson of the University of Miami in Florida and lead author of the study.
«The
data that are
available show that, like the boreal and temperate forests, tropical old - growth forests also continue
to take up and sequester carbon,» says forest
scientist Eugenie Euskirchen of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, who was not involved in this research.
And the tide of
available medical
data continues
to rise, tantalizing
scientists.
• Twitter recently announced that it would make
available to researchers its vast archive of tweets — apparently a great research opportunity for
data - savvy social
scientists.
The changing nature of how and where
scientists share raw
data has sparked a growing need for guidelines on how
to cite these increasingly
available datasets.
Scientists have known about the beneficial effects of bone marrow transplants since the late 1960s, but «there really hasn't been much
data available to explain what is going on,» says immunologist James George of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, an author of the new study.
The downside
to this method is that in order
to compress the
available data, algorithms sometimes group together strategies that don't actually work, says Michael Bowling, a computer
scientist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
Using the publicly
available data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and private insurance companies on how much money was spent on storm recovery, the
scientists were able
to show the volume of tweets about Sandy in New Jersey and New York was associated with how much money people in the area received for damages.
«One reason for not sharing
data is the fear of being scooped by another
scientist; but if all
data are
available, then everyone is on the same playing field, there are more people
to collaborate with, and you will have a bigger impact on science,» said Soranno, an MSU AgBioResearch
scientist.
This time, the
scientists were able
to quickly analyze the summer of 2013 because the model
data sets were publicly
available through a program called the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5.
Plentiful online scientific databases offer terabytes of
data for
scientists to mine with their desktop computers, while model genera like Drosophila (fruit flies) are
available for experiments in increasingly powerful laboratory spaces.
3) Volcano Spotting Meanwhile, earth
scientists in Alaska are using Google Earth
to visualize their
data and make it
available to the public.
Given that Medicare
data from other states are
available, the approach could be used more broadly
to measure the health impacts of immigration policy nationwide, says Tom Wong, a political
scientist at the University of California, San Diego.
«I liked the thought of helping
to preserve this
data and making it
available for use
to current
scientists.
With very little scientific
data available about the new strain, the MIT researchers stress the need for better surveillance
to track the outbreak and
to help
scientists to determine how
to respond
to this influenza variant.
They should get plenty of outside help: By making IBM's source code
to Data Explorer — a supercomputer program that allows researchers to turn trillions of bits of data into understandable pictures — available freely on the Web, DCI hopes to encourage scientists and business technology experts to create and share innovative ways of displaying nonphysical d
Data Explorer — a supercomputer program that allows researchers
to turn trillions of bits of
data into understandable pictures — available freely on the Web, DCI hopes to encourage scientists and business technology experts to create and share innovative ways of displaying nonphysical d
data into understandable pictures —
available freely on the Web, DCI hopes
to encourage
scientists and business technology experts
to create and share innovative ways of displaying nonphysical
datadata.
For example, inflammatory breast cancer is a very rare type of cancer found at a higher rate in Northern Africa where there are fewer
scientists available to analyze the
data.
To make the data readily available to other researchers, he has uploaded it to ProteinPaint, a St. Jude web portal that gives scientists worldwide access to masses of cancer genomic dat
To make the
data readily
available to other researchers, he has uploaded it to ProteinPaint, a St. Jude web portal that gives scientists worldwide access to masses of cancer genomic dat
to other researchers, he has uploaded it
to ProteinPaint, a St. Jude web portal that gives scientists worldwide access to masses of cancer genomic dat
to ProteinPaint, a St. Jude web portal that gives
scientists worldwide access
to masses of cancer genomic dat
to masses of cancer genomic
data.
A hardware contribution
to Euclid, Yoder said, will give U.S.
scientists access
to about «10 % of the whole science
available» during the mission's limited access period, before the observed
data are made public.
It also connects Kaiser Permanente's research
scientists to one of the most extensive collections of longitudinal medical
data available, facilitating studies and important medical discoveries that shape the future of health and care delivery for patients and the medical community.
«Progress in genomic research has already begun
to transform modern medicine,» said Tracey DePellegrin, executive editor of G3, which, like its sister journal GENETICS also published by Genetics Society of America, promotes full
data sharing and dissemination for scientific reseachers, «and this progress is contingent on
scientists being able
to access the genomic sequences, now
available through dbGaP.
In a major analysis of the
data available so far,
scientists advising the WHO came
to the same conclusion.
Argonne's
scientists are also working with the City of Chicago
to use Waggle as a platform
to increase the spatial and temporal
data available for a range of scientific and «smart city» applications.
Drummond said their findings improve the statistical toolset
available to scientists working with large sets of potentially noisy
data.
The fact that the
data are freely
available online should spur the
scientists in charge of each instrument
to make the most of the results, says Benoît Pirenne, who heads NEPTUNE's
data management and was previously in charge of archiving astronomical
data for the European Southern Observatory.
Often
scientists in a purely collegial spirit will make
available to you
data that they haven't published yet.
Thanks
to the internet, a rich set of
data about endocrine disruption research is
available, and with teleconferencing,
scientists no longer have
to leave their labs and travel long distances
to communicate in large group sessions.
UCE has been
available since 2012, yet
scientists are just beginning
to tap its potential for generating enormous amounts of genetic
data across vertebrates.
Scientists use the
available data and complex computer modeling
to fill in the gaps and estimate the burden of, say, turberculosis in Peru or high blood pressure in Italy.
The mouse regulome is the obvious choice
to focus on, says William Skarnes, senior
scientist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, U.K., given the vast amount of
data already
available on the animal and its similarity
to humans.
The findings are just the start of a major programme
to exploit the immense datasets coming from the survey telescopes and the
data are now being made
available to scientists worldwide through the ESO archive.
The group plans
to make technology, and all the
data,
available to the broader research community --- which is especially helpful now that great ape research is severely restricted in the United States and abroad --- so that other
scientists can learn about primates using non-invasive, ethically sound methods.
«We're using climate
data that the U.S. federal government supports, so it's freely
available and you can go and find it, rather than needing an academic or
scientist to look through a microscope and find it for you.»
Even though the
data from PAMELA cover a different energy range from the ATIC signal, Wefel believes that «there is no contradiction between ATIC and PAMELA, at least
to within the uncertainties on the presently
available data», he told New
Scientist.
Butte hopes that
scientists and pharmaceutical companies will continue
to make
data publicly
available.
«Well, the idea is really
to combine the best of what Silicon Valley can offer with the access
to the best telescopes in the world
to create an environment where all the
data will be made
available to the
scientists and the public.
And he and the Washington University
scientists have made the entire
data set and tools
to analyze it
available through Poldrack's lab at Stanford University, where he now teaches psychology.
Over that time it gathered a colossal 2 petabytes of
data, and now the
scientists behind the project are making all of it
available to the public.
Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL - EBI) and colleagues in the International Molecular Exchange (IMEx) consortium are rising
to the challenge by offering researchers a freely
available set of experimental interaction
data that can be queried from a single interface.