special seminar
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Dear all,
This is a gentle reminder about tomorrow's Special seminar.
There will be a Special seminar as per details given below:
Speaker: Prof Myles Axton, Editor of Nature Genetics
On
Title of the talk: Publishing research to make sure society gains Date: 25th
September 2018 (tomorrow)
Timing and Venue: 4 pm at BT Seminar Hall
All are welcome.
About the Speaker:
Myles Axton (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8042-4131) is the editor of Nature Genetics. He was a university lecturer in molecular and cellular biology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College from 1995 to 2003. He obtained his degree in genetics at Cambridge in 1985, and his doctorate at Imperial College in 1990, and between 1990 and 1995 did postdoctoral research at Dundee and at MIT’s Whitehead Institute. Myles’s research made use of the advanced genetics of Drosophila to study genome stability by examining the roles of cell cycle regulators in life cycle transitions. His interests broadened into human genetics, genomics and systems biology through lecturing and from tutoring biochemists, zoologists and medical students from primary research papers. Helping to establish Oxford’s innovative research MSc. in Integrative Biosciences led Myles to realize the importance of the integrative overview of biomedical research. As a full time professional editor he is now in a position to use this perspective to help coordinate research in genetics.
Abstract:
We cannot advance development goals by research alone.Even with journals encouraging the best community standards and maximizing the utility of scientific publications via editorially supervised peer review, there is no guarantee that the fruits of research will be harvested. Adoption depends upon reasonable decision makers to advance genomics in precision medicine and agriculture, and vaccination in public health, to give just two examples. Listening to the values and narratives of decision makers and the public as well as our scientists will prepare the ground for adoption of rational solutions.
Findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) open linked data is for me the next step after Open Access (OA) publishing to making research reproducible. This set of practices is equally compatible with grant funded open and commercial proprietary uses of data. As publishers, we can extend the linked data infrastructure we already use for our publication metadata to present machine interoperable versions of our article content. The obvious opportunities for publishers in fields like cancer research, agriculture, pharmacology, chemistry and genomics are to build business by processing supplementary tables and code into FAIR open linked data that interoperates with the database deposited datasets and code packages of other customers. Data models based on standard and field-specific metadata can be used in peer review, to gain better reader understanding of the claims presented, as well as to integrate the datasets of multiple projects for new insights that can be published as Review and Analysis articles. Finally, the need for data stewardship (for example the European Union’s GO-FAIR initiative) will lead not only to a generation of scientists trained to carry out research on scientific, healthcare and patient-owned data, but also a generation of meta-researchers who will be able to assess the practices of many research fields and make publications in new journals recommending best practices for reapplying data standards and analytical tools across disciplines.
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