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The recent reports on being able to predict Alzheimer's ( Alzheimer's predicted by spinal-fluid test -- CBC, 2010.08.10) are the direct results due to the data sharing of scores of biomedical researchers ( Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s -- New York Times, 2010.08.10). The sharing included both academic researchers and drug company researchers. The data sets are available online: Companies as well as academic researchers are using the data. There have been more than 3,200 downloads of the entire massive data set and almost a million downloads of the data sets containing images from brain scans. Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), the organization looking after the data, has a very complete policy ( Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) Data Sharing and Publication Policy ) about their data sharing.

LNCS 5109: Data Integration in the Life Sciences (5th International Workshop, DILS 2008, Evry, France, June 25-27, 2008). Some interesting papers: Ontologies and Data Integration in Biomedicine: Success Stories and Challenging Issues BioWarehouse: Relational Integration of Eleven Bioinformatics Databases and Formats Analyzing the Evolution of Life Science Ontologies and Mappings Automatic Methods for Integrating Biomedical Data Sources in a Mediator-Based System VisGenome and Ensembl: Usability of Integrated Genome Maps Bio2RDF : A Semantic Web Atlas of Post Genomic Knowledge about Human and Mouse Chemical Knowledge for the Semantic Web Combining One-Class Classification Models Based on Diverse Biological Data for Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions