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                <div class="intro-heading">The Symbiont Awards</div>
                <div class="intro-lead-in">Celebrating the sharing of scientific data</div>
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                    <h2 class="section-heading">The Symbionts</h2>
                    <h3 class="section-subheading text-muted">PSB awards for data sharing.</h3>
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                  <p>
                    As Isaac Newton wrote to Robert Hooke in 1675: “if I have seen further, it is by standing on the
                    shoulders of giants.” The Symbiont Awards seek to honor modern giants. Traditionally, data sharing
                    was challenging and expensive, so research proceeded by sharing completed findings. Our culture in
                    science and medicine has been built on the value of completed stories.
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                    However, with the rise of networked computers, sharing complex datasets is increasingly feasible.
                    Once data are shared, anyone can make discoveries from these data. This is good, at least in the
                    short term, for research. Discoveries arrive sooner, and patients benefit more quickly. Discoveries
                    are also more likely to emerge when they are still meaningful, before new discoveries have
                    rendered them less useful. But to avoid harm in the long term, we need to make sure that incentives
                    are aligned to guarantee that generating novel and interesting datasets remains rewarded.
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                    We envision a future in which widespread sharing of research data benefits all. We expect the
                    biggest winners will be those who share and share well, and in doing so, create the most value.
                    However, until that time comes, the Symbiont Awards seek to recognize these individuals and their
                    contributions.
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                    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiosis">Symbiosis</a> denotes a long-term interaction
                    between two different species. The interaction may be beneficial to both or may impose a cost on
                    a member of the interaction. Data sharing may impose a cost on the individual sharing, or it may
                    provide benefits.
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                    The Symbiont Awards, given annually, recognize exemplars in the practice of data sharing. We expect data sharing to play a key role in the scientific ecosystem. Some of the goals supported by data sharing include:
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                        <li>Facilitate meta-analysis and other granular, between-study analyses, even if the investigators who currently curate the data deem the project too far outside their interests* to justify a sharing effort.</li>
                        <li>Facilitate validation of emerging non-randomized analytical approaches (e.g., propensity score matching) via comparison to bona fide randomized data.</li>
                        <li>Facilitate independent attempts to address existing hypotheses using existing data, which can reveal previously unknown sensitivity of prior analyses to methodological assumptions ("pressure-testing" of the robustness of hypotheses; sensitivity analysis)</li>
                        <li>Facilitate the generation of novel hypotheses, leading researchers to perform new studies and generate new datasets.</li>
                        <li>Unburden research teams from having to handle every incoming request for data.</li>
                        <li>Broaden the impact of existing data, which are often generated at great time and expense.</li>
                        <li>Facilitate the emergence of important research findings faster than any one team can act to produce the results either alone or in collaboration.</li>
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                    *fundamentally in the sense of “what they enjoy thinking about”, but also, rarely, in the financial sense. The question that seems esoteric to the original study team might be highly pertinent to health in another context.
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                    The Symbiont Awards currently consist of two awards: the first recognizes an outstanding contribution
                    from any research area at any level. The second seeks to recognize the sharing of data relevant to
                    health by an individual at the training stage of their career - ideally a trainee with clinical
                    responsibilities.
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                    <h2 class="section-heading">Award Criteria</h2>
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                  <h4>Both awards</h4>
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                    <li><em>Sharing mechanism.</em> Was the sharing mechanism clearly permissible per all applicable ethical or legal restrictions, e.g., informed consent document? Was the sharing mechanism as easy for re-users as is feasible within those constraints?</li>
                    <li><em>Dataset quality.</em> Was the dataset remarkable for its richness, granularity, and quality, such that it was inviting to potential re-users?</li>
                    <li><em>Intellectual independence.</em> Was creation of the dataset an endeavor supported by a sponsor with a conflict of interest vis a vis the results? If no such conflict exists, nominators should specify this. If a conflict exists, please explain how the contribution demonstrates independence.</li>
                    <li><em>Exemplar reanalyses.</em> Were the data effectively re-used to answer questions not addressed in an initial publication reporting the dataset or data notification?</li>
                    <li><em>Annotation of decisions made in the generation of the dataset.</em> Additional consideration will be given to datasets with the clearest publicly available audit trail of decisions potentially affecting re-users.</li>
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                  <h4>The Early-career Clinical Research Symbiont Award</h4>
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                    <li><em>Translational research focus.</em> Are the data being reanalyzed for the purpose of translational research? Impact will be assessed based on the potential of secondary analyses to improve human health.</li>
                    <li><em>Training stage.</em> The data must have been generated and disseminated during the training stage of an applicant’s career. The applicant must be no more than three years post-training by the time of the nomination deadline. Preference will be given to applicants who have clinical, in addition to research, responsibilities.</li>
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                  <h3>Application Process</h3>
                  <p>
                      We encourage readers to broadly share this call, and we strongly encourage members of groups that are underrepresented in scientific communities to apply for this award.
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                    Applications for the 2018 Research Symbiont Awards must be received by September 30, 2017 at 5PM HST (Hawaii Standard Time) at <strong><a href="mailto:researchsymbiontawards@gmail.com">researchsymbiontawards@gmail.com</a></strong>.
                    An application requires:
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                    <li>An application letter describing how the applicant meets the criteria for the award and containing the URL of the dataset’s website (a link to the dataset’s presence on the web).</li>
                    <li>Early-Career Clinical Research Symbiont Award: a description of a shared resource to which the applicant has contributed &amp; on which the application will be judged. In addition, a PDF of an article making use of the shared data should be included whenever this is possible.</li>
                    <li>Sustained Symbiont: a description of data sets developed by the applicant which have led to papers by other authors. In addition, the application should include a PDF of an article representing excellent re-use of the data in the opinion of the applicant.</li>
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                    The award winners will be recognized at the <strong><a href="http://psb.stanford.edu">Pacific Symposium on
                    Biocomputing</a></strong> each year and listed on the PSB website.
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                  <h3>Eligibility</h3>
                  <p><strong>Selection criteria (both awards):</strong></p>
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                    <li>The sharing mechanism must be clearly permissible per all applicable ethical or legal restrictions, e.g., informed consent document.</li>
                    <li>The sharing mechanism must be as easy for re-users as is feasible within ethical and legal constraints.</li>
                    <li>The dataset must be remarkable for its richness, granularity, and quality, such that it is inviting to potential re-users.</li>
                    <li>If the dataset is an endeavor supported by a sponsor with a conflict of interest vis a vis the results, the applicant should explain how the sharing mechanism demonstrates independence from the sponsor. If there is no such conflict of interest, the applicant should say so.</li>
                    <li>Attention will be paid in the judging to whether the data were effectively re-used to answer questions not addressed in an initial publication reporting the dataset or data notification.</li>
                    <li>Additional consideration will be given to datasets with the clearest publicly available audit trail of decisions potentially affecting re-users.</li>
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                  <p><strong>Additional selection criteria for the Early Career Clinical Research Symbiont Award:</strong></p>
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                    <li>The awardee must have contributed to the dataset during the training stage of their career (prior to any faculty rank, e.g., Instructor, Clinical Lecturer, or Assistant Professor). If the awardee has assumed a faculty rank, she or he should not have been in that position for more than 3 years.</li>
                    <li>The award will be based on the description of the dataset in the application letter, inspection of the dataset’s website for its access policies, and the work achieved because of data sharing (as exemplified by the PDF of a manuscript submitted with the application letter).</li>
                    <li>The impact of the data sharing will be judged in part on the potential of secondary analyses to improve human health.</li>
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                  <p><strong>Additional selection criteria for the Sustained Symbiont award:</strong></p>
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                    <li>The awardee must be in an independent investigator position in academia, industry or public sector.</li>
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                    By submitting an application you agree that the decisions of the Research Symbiont Award Committee are final, and the Committee is unable to provide feedback on applications that were not selected.
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                      Funding for the award is managed with administrative support from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman
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                      The committee has sole responsibility for determining the
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                  <p>*<em>Selection of new committee members</em>: For the three four-year term positions (current
                    members marked with a star), the award
                    committee will have the right to nominate new members, and the PSB organizers will have
                    the right to confirm selected nominees. For the two two-year terms positions, recipients
                    of the Sustained Parasitism award will rotate on to the committee.
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                        <li>Jack Gilbert<a href="https://twitter.com/gilbertjacka"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i></a> (Founding Member, 2017 Award Year)</li>
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                                    <p class="text-muted">The article describes research parasites who may,
                                      according to the article,: "use another group’s data for their own ends,
                                      possibly stealing from the research productivity planned by the data gatherers,
                                      or even use the data to try to disprove what the original investigators had posited."
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                                    <p class="text-muted">Iddo Friedberg tweets a modest proposal: "I propose a new science
                                      award: 'The Research Parasite Award is given to those who used someone else's data to
                                      do some really cool sh*t'
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                                    <p class="text-muted">A series of supporters, including journals, foundations, and individuals
                                    who wish to promote the rigorous and reproducible analysis of existing data offer support to
                                    the award, allowing a cash prize and travel award to be established.</p>
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                                    <h4>January 2017</h4>
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                                    <p class="text-muted">In January of 2017, the first Research Parasite Awards will be given
                                    for junior and sustained parasitism. If you have a contribution that meets the requirements
                                    please <a class="page-scroll" href="#apply">apply </a>. If you'd like to work with us to
                                    recognize these contributions, please <a class="page-scroll" href="#prize">get in touch</a>.</p>
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                            <h4>Erick Turner</h4>
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