Stanford is going to establish open access repository of Bioinformatics
Stanford has got a grant to establish an open access repository of Bioinformatics on autism . This repository, according to Dennis Wall (PhD) who leads the project, is going to be the biggest ever built of its kind. This project, beyond contributing towards finding a breakthrough in autism research, also adds momentum to an open access movement.
The repository, once it is built, is expected to provide autism researchers a centralized database from which pertinent research output and data can be fetched. The project will be funded by The Hartwell Autism Research and Technology Initiative (iHART). To realize this the iHART has allocated $9 million for the project. The iHART is a charitable organization whose primary mission is to support early stage biomedical research projects.
The researchers and the iHART Foundation anticipate that the repository will enhance collaboration and data sharing. It could be also a platform from which researchers dig deeper into large quantities of autism related research data.
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