OPEN LETTER CAMPAIGN
00 Signatures
SIGNATURES
Jian YANG
PI
National Institute of Pathogen Biology, CAMS&PUMC
欧阳广璐
学生
安徽农业大学农学院
Torsten Schwede
Professor
University of Basel & SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Cecilia Arighi
Instructor
University of Delaware
Peter D Karp
Director, Bioinformatics Research Group
SRI International
Boris Pfander
Professor
TU Dortmund University
Weiwen Wang
Curator
China National GeneBank
Max Haeussler
PI
UCSC Genomics Institute
Release: 22 March 2024
Last updates: 18 November 2024
THE STATEMENT
At a pivotal moment in time for the world’s biodata infrastructure, individuals who acknowledge the importance of a global effort towards sustaining biodata resources have added their signature to this letter. Join them by adding yours.
Life science data resources are important for broad and diverse stakeholders, including researchers, funders, scientists and policy makers. Through this open letter, members of these stakeholder groups highlight the importance of data resources and note their fragility and uncertain future. They commit to participating, where they can, in the global effort to address these issues and encourage further stakeholders similarly to engage.
OUR CONCERN
Many biodata resources are struggling to secure the necessary funding to enable their long-term sustainability. The current globally fragmented funding situation jeopardises their ability to scale up to support new data types and ever-increasing volumes of data, to maintain high-quality data standards, to ensure data integrity, and to effectively serve the global scientific community
Advances in life science are threatened if critical data cannot be curated, stored, maintained, integrated and made openly searchable and retrievable. Current funding arrangements mean that permanent open access to these data, by the global research community, is by no means guaranteed and we risk the loss of economic opportunity as a further consequence.
OUR DECLARATION
We recognise the fragility of the current funding system and the critical importance of sustaining the world’s biodata resources for the good of humankind. We support the coming together, under the auspices of the Global Biodata Coalition, of the many diverse stakeholders that will be required to work in a concerted way to address these challenges.
With our collective voice and cooperative efforts we will be a powerful force for positive change in support of the global biodata infrastructure.
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THE STATEMENT
At a pivotal moment in time for the world’s biodata infrastructure, individuals who acknowledge the importance of a global effort towards sustaining biodata resources have added their signature to this letter. Join them by adding yours.
Life science data resources are important for broad and diverse stakeholders, including researchers, funders, scientists and policy makers. Through this open letter, members of these stakeholder groups highlight the importance of data resources and note their fragility and uncertain future. They commit to participating, where they can, in the global effort to address these issues and encourage further stakeholders similarly to engage.
OUR CONCERN
Many biodata resources are struggling to secure the necessary funding to enable their long-term sustainability. The current globally fragmented funding situation jeopardises their ability to scale up to support new data types and ever-increasing volumes of data, to maintain high-quality data standards, to ensure data integrity, and to effectively serve the global scientific community
Advances in life science are threatened if critical data cannot be curated, stored, maintained, integrated and made openly searchable and retrievable. Current funding arrangements mean that permanent open access to these data, by the global research community, is by no means guaranteed and we risk the loss of economic opportunity as a further consequence.
OUR DECLARATION
We recognise the fragility of the current funding system and the critical importance of sustaining the world’s biodata resources for the good of humankind. We support the coming together, under the auspices of the Global Biodata Coalition, of the many diverse stakeholders that will be required to work in a concerted way to address these challenges.
Download Printable PDF of the letter here
PDF version available
Download
SIGNATURES
Jian YANG
PI
National Institute of Pathogen Biology, CAMS&PUMC
欧阳广璐
学生
安徽农业大学农学院
Torsten Schwede
Professor
University of Basel & SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Cecilia Arighi
Instructor
University of Delaware
Peter D Karp
Director, Bioinformatics Research Group
SRI International
Boris Pfander
Professor
TU Dortmund University
Weiwen Wang
Curator
China National GeneBank
Max Haeussler
PI
UCSC Genomics Institute
Release: 22 March 2024
Last updates: 18 November 2024