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Characterizing the Biomedical Data-Sharing Landscape

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Angela G. Villanueva ,
Robert Cook-Deegan ,
Barbara A. Koenig ,
Patricia A. Deverka ,
Erika Versalovic ,
Amy L. McGuire  and
Mary A. Majumder
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Abstract

Advances in technologies and biomedical informatics have expanded capacity to generate and share biomedical data. With a lens on genomic data, we present a typology characterizing the data-sharing landscape in biomedical research to advance understanding of the key stakeholders and existing data-sharing practices. The typology highlights the diversity of data-sharing efforts and facilitators and reveals how novel data-sharing efforts are challenging existing norms regarding the role of individuals whom the data describe.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 47 , Issue 1: Sharing Data in a Medical Information Commons , Spring 2019 , pp. 21 - 30
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2019

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