The American Medical Informatics Association is joining forces with the Dryad Digital Repository, a curated resource for data underlying scientific publications.
AMIA will connect the Dryad resource to a special focus issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The theme of the issue is "Biomedical Data Science: Sharing Digital Objects to Accelerate Discoveries and Ensure Reproducibility of Results."
The partnership will integrate data sharing and scholarly literature. JAMIA will encourage submitting authors to deposit data using Dryad, which will provide a basic level of curation as well as long-term data storage.
"The JAMIA community is uniquely positioned to help develop a biomedical and healthcare data commons in which data, software, and systems are easily findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable and privacy protected. With this special focus issue we are taking the right steps in this direction," said JAMIA Editor Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD.