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While some scientific communities (modern geographers, for instance) engaged in obtaining data in the many diverse fields of knowledge needed to make sense of our genetic diversity have made significant advances in collecting, maintaining, and effectively disseminating information of broad scientific and civic utility, other fields have not progressed as rapidly (currently the interoperability of specialist databases in linguistics and anthropology, for example, is quite limited).
Two parallel activities are needed to build effective interdisciplinary collaboratories capable of making rigorous assessments of health and genetics:
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Expansion of systematic community databases |
There is pressing need to encourage the growth, maintenance, and utilization of specialist databases and extendible database infrastructures in all the requisite fields of knowledge that can help all of us make sense of health and our species' global diversity.
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Development of greater database interoperability |
There is also a pressing need for appropriate meta-database architectures favoring interoperability among of these specialist ("community") databases.
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