New alliance aims to create international system for sharing genomic data

A group of top-flight geneticists from a dozen countries is creating an organization to break down barriers to data sharing in genetic research in the hope of speeding up the discovery of new ways to treat everything from common killers like cancer to rare disorders. “There’s some tremendous, groundbreaking science taking place, but it’s happening in an isolated, balkanized fashion,” Tom Hudson, president and scientific director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), said in an interview. “Now we need some technical standards and organization to accelerate that science.” Read more here.