Time: 11 July 2016, 10 AM Eastern

Meeting number: 803 682 010

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1. Proposal to Rename Working Group

• Nils proposes to rename the working group to “Policy Working Group” to reflect the full scope of our mission.

2. Publication and Software Sharing Policy

• Summary of Nils' conversation with IP lawyer regarding sharing of abstracts and manuscripts and consequences.
• Additional feedback on policies by 4DN members, if any.
• Submitting publication and software sharing policies for final discussion by Steering Committee during July 19 call

3. Data Release Policy

• We will have a wider discussion about data release at the annual meeting, until then we should have identified and possibly addressed major concerns regarding immediate data sharing.\__NIH essentially expects that data will be shared publicly (not only within the consortium) as soon as it has been produced. Data will be shared through the DCIC.
• Concerns regarding data sharing that were identified and need to be addressed (in our data release policy or elsewhere):
  • Investigators are concerned about releasing data that has not been fully vetted (which is often only the case when a manuscript is about to be submitted)
    • possible response: DCIC will compute consortium-approved QC metrics on all data sets before releasing them.
  • Investigators are concerned that they will get scooped.
    • possible response: The will be an embargo period during which nobody outside 4DN?/data production group? can publish on the data.
  • Other concerns?
• The omics and imaging standards working groups need to clarify what data should be released. This might be pretty straightforward for omics data but will be challenging for imaging data.

4. Any Other Business