How does sharing large image sets lead to new discoveries in neuroscience research?
Quoting the NIH Draft Statement on Sharing Research Data: “There are many reasons to share data from NIH-supported studies. Sharing data reinforces open scientific inquiry, encourages diversity of analysis and opinion, promotes new research, makes possible the testing of new or alternative hypotheses and methods of analysis, supports studies on data collection methods and measurement, facilitates the education of new researchers, enables the exploration of topics not envisioned by the initial investigators, and permits the creation of new data sets when data from multiple sources are combined. By avoiding the duplication of expensive data collection activities, the NIH is able to support more investigators than it could if similar data had to be collected de novo by each applicant.” (NIH 2002. NIH announces draft statement on sharing research data. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-02-035.html.) The Report on Neuroinformatics from the Global Science Forum Neuroinfo
