Daniel Himmelstein
Head of Data Integration at Related Sciences. Digital craftsman of the biodata revolution.
By Daniel Himmelstein
WATCH ONLINE at https://youtu.be/2Y2OIutYE4Y. OpenCon. ABSTRACT: We recently created a network for drug repurposing with 3 million edges. Creating the network brought together 27 collaborators who communicated via 266 CC-BY posts. The network integrates data from 28 public resources. However, each source imposes it’s own (often incompatible) restrictions, implicitly by copyright or explicitly by licensing. We’ve contacted 10 resources, with only a single affirmative response. We’re currently exposing the harms of transferring data copyright to publishers as well as Universities that seek to profit from publicly-funded databases while preventing reuse.