Genomics and privacy: implications of the new reality of closed data for the field.

Open source and open data have been driving forces in bioinformatics in the past. However, privacy concerns may soon change the landscape, limiting future access to important data sets, including personal genomics data. Here we survey this situation in some detail, describing, in particular, how the...

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Main Authors: Dov Greenbaum, Andrea Sboner, Xinmeng Jasmine Mu, Mark Gerstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22144881/pdf/?tool=EBI