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Genomics And Personalized Medicine Open Policy Forum
Actress Angelina Jolie’s opinion piece in The New York Times this month highlighted the critical role genetic testing can play in cancer prevention – as well as the obstacles many face in securing that lifesaving knowledge. Read More »
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Genomics And The Role Of Big Data In Personalizing The Healthcare Experience
Genomics is making headlines in both academia and the celebrity world. With intense media coverage of Angelina Jolie’s recent double mastectomy after genetic tests revealed that she was predisposed to breast cancer, genetic testing and genomics have been propelled to the front of many more minds. Read More »
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GenoSpace And The TranSMART Foundation Announce Partnership To Expand Data Sharing And Analytics
GenoSpace, LLC, a company that builds information systems capable of storing and integrating genomic information and other health data for clinical care and advanced research, today announced its support for the emerging open-source tranSMART data-sharing and analytics platform. Read More »
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Geodata-Fueled Map Relates Storms To Energy Facilities
A new interactive map for tracking storms in real time, released on July 9 by the Energy Information Administration, aggregates some 30 sets of geodata from a wide range of agencies and organizations -- all in an effort to monitor the effect such storms could have on critical energy infrastructure. Read More »
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Geoghegan-Quinn: 'Open Access Is The Default'
European Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn tells DW why Open Access to new scientific research is vital for the public, and why traditional publishers know it's time to change. Read More »
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George Mason University to Host Next CONNECT Code-A-Thon!
In just one week, we will hold our next Code-A-Thon (August 16-17) on the campus of George Mason University! In addition to the traditional working group sessions, this event will feature a panel of industry experts and a “living” agenda created through Hackpad. Read More »
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Georgia Tech Researcher Flags Flaw In Open-Source Vets Health System
What began as a master's thesis wound up revealing a potentially severe flaw in VA's open healthcare project. Read More »
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Geospatial Intelligence: A Diagnostic Dashboard For A Healthier Nation
When it comes to public health, and identifying the events and behaviors that affect it, agencies charged with protecting the health and welfare of citizens need to leverage every available tool at their disposal to quickly and effectively respond to growing threats. Data mapping is a tool to answer the call...In the case of emergencies, planning and crisis response, open-source information is readily available via the CDC...
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Geraint Lewis: VistA – An Opportunity For The NHS?
In this slideshow, Dr Geraint Lewis, Senior Fellow at the Nuffield Trust, outlines why VistA, an open-source electronic medical record system, would be a viable option for the NHS. Read More »
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Geraldo Rivera Supports Single Payer
[...] Geraldo Rivera was quite sincere when, on his radio show, he discussed briefly the serious flaws of Obamacare and then explicitly supported single payer – Medicare for everybody. This is from a Republican who also has a show (“Geraldo-at-Large”) on the Fox News Channel. Read More »
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German City Hopes To Wean Citizens Off Windows XP With Free Linux CDs
Thousands of free Linux CDs are to be distributed to citizens of a German city in spring of next year. Read More »
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German Coalition Favors German-Owned Or Open Source Software, Aims To Lock NSA Out
Germany’s new coalition government listed open source software among its IT policy priorities, and said it will take steps to protect its citizens against espionage threats from the NSA and other foreign intelligence agencies. Read More »
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Germany-Wide Consortium of Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access
Germany's DEAL project, which includes over 60 major research institutions, has announced that all of its members are canceling their subscriptions to all of Elsevier's academic and scientific journals, effective January 1, 2017. The boycott is in response to Elsevier's refusal to adopt "transparent business models" to "make publications more openly accessible". Elsevier is notorious even among academic publishers for its hostility to open access, but it also publishes some of the most prestigious journals in many fields. This creates a vicious cycle, where the best publicly funded research is published in Elsevier journals, which then claims ownership over the research...
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Get Ready For A Flood Of New Hadoop Apps
Hadoop's 2.0 release includes Yarn, a workload manager that could make it much easier to build and run apps on the open source big data platform Read More »
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Get Ready For Some Really Bad Space Weather
That’s the message from four space scientists at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory who warned of increased solar activity -- which can disrupt all types of communications, including GPS signals -- with the sun pumping out more solar flares over the next five years than any time since 2003. Read More »
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