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Resources and Alternative Publication Streams for Big Data
Citation:
Williams, A. Resources and Alternative Publication Streams for Big Data. SOT, San Antonio, TX, March 11 - 15, 2018.
Impact/Purpose:
Abstract for workshop presentation at SOT 2018
Description:
The volume of data and associated myriad of data analyses conducted to support toxicological research studies has been expanding for years and there is little indication that it will be slowing. Traditional publication methods offer, at best, a summary of the data underlying a research publication and in general are not sufficient for meeting the needs of data sharing and transparency. Datasets can be too large to be supplied as supplementary files in peer reviewed publications, commonly cannot be distilled into a PDF file (the publishers preferred format for data distribution) and this sometimes necessitates release in the form of large file downloads of complex databases. Analyses are commonly conducted using custom-written computational codes, unique to the study, which are currently not commonly published alongside the results. There are many resources available to toxicologists that can be utilized to effectively share data and methodology in the toxicology community. Such approaches can deliver data in a more readily available form for public use when supplied in a computable format and using standards amenable to integration into other systems. This presentation will address some of the challenges associated with data sharing and highlight options and tools available to publish toxicological data and analysis methods to facilitate reproducibility and transparency. This abstract does not reflect EPA policy.
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WILLIAMS_SOT_WORKSHOP_ABSTRACT_20170811.PDF (PDF, NA pp, 95.351 KB, about PDF)BIG DATA PRESENTATION_0302_2018_V1.2.PDF (PDF, NA pp, 2508.681 KB, about PDF)