EncrypGen will enable individuals to sell their deidentified data for research.

Americans and Australians aren’t far behind, according to a questionnaire of researchers.

Our analysis of a collection of open-access datasets quantifies their benefit to the scientific community.

Computational scientists develop a system for spotting data overdue for public release, and end up getting hundreds of open-access datasets corrected.

The publicly available database found nearly a third of samples included mutations targeted by either approved drugs or therapies in clinical trials. 

Diego Gomez was facing jail time in Colombia for posting someone else’s copyrighted thesis online.

The latest stats on volunteers’ efforts in recent months to preserve environmental information generated by federal science agencies

By combining whole-exome sequencing data with longitudinal electronic health record information for 50,000 individuals, researchers have identified novel disease associations.

Sorting out which data sets are clinical-grade is key to helping patients.