In April 2003, British and U.S. researchers declared the Human Genome Project complete. This decade-long computational marathon marked the first time that anyone had mapped out the sequence of the ...

Disease combinations are often unique – anonymization of health data is therefore particularly complex. An interview on ...

Genomic data sharing is vital for optimizing the use of public-funded research data. Data access committees (DACs) have been introduced as a core component of governance in controlled-access models.

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, authors of the new book Big Data: A ...