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Omics and Open Science: A Pla1orm and Approach for the Future for Space Biology

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Omics and Open Science: A Pla1orm and Approach for the Future for Space Biology

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Funding organiza@ons around the world are adop@ng open science policies, resul@ng in a pressing need for open science programs. In response to the 2011 decadal survey, NASA sought to expand and accelerate omics research, releasing its GeneLab Strategic Plan in 2014. GeneLab is an open science data repository and analysis portal for spaceflight and space-relevant omics data. GeneLab’s output has been outstanding, but its full poten@al as a way to transform space biology has not yet been achieved. NASA should pursue the development of GeneLab as an open science plaeorm in earnest.

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