In this series, members of the RDS team share links to research data related stories, resources, and news that caught their eye each month. Feel free to share your favorite stories with us on Twitter @UWMadRschSvcs!
Cameron Cook
This PeerJ preprint by Nikola Jovanovic and Alexander Mikheyev talks about using D3.js to make sharing and exploring large phylogenetic trees easier, way cool! H/T PLOS Paleo Fossil Friday Roundup
enabling Data Science in Biology by RCSB is developing a MOOC that they say will be “an open access modular educational curriculum covering concepts, approaches and requirements for developing and managing the full data pipeline for a curated public archive of biological experimental data contributed by a community of data providers.”
The OSTI blog posted about the Brady Hot Springs and the work being done there between many collaborators -UW-Madison being one of them. They also link to available datasets from UW-Madison Geoscience’s PoroTomo project.
Open Knowledge Maps provides a visual mapping of the content topics in your search term.
Allan Barclay
The Cancer Genome Atlas Project is an effort to profile tumor types and make the data available to researchers. You can also read the PLoS One article about it.
The State of Open Data is a report from figshare on the state of open data and sharing.