Open international collaboration will drive the next scientific breakthrough – Digital Journal

Photo: Shutterstock Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Daniel Stover , a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School, was examining the link between genetic differences in tumours and chemotherapy resistance. All the tools were available to him. He was bright and at an elite institution, with genetic information from hundreds of tumour samples to pour over. But there was a problem: Stover had no idea how to handle the data. 'I had generated an immense amount of sequencing data and couldn't find anybody to analyse it,' he explained. This was until he was introduced to a bioinformatician…