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5 The Importance of Data
Pages 35-40

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... FAA's safety and certification initiatives were started in 1999 to address issues associated with the growing use of composites for the construction of planes. A large part of this effort is to coordinate the groups that update policies, issue advisory circulars, offer training, and furnish detailed background to support standardized composite properties and engineering practices.
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... Biomedical Informatics Biomedical informatics applies computer science, decision science, cognitive science, and organizational theory to the management of biological and medical information. The biological community did not universally agree on the importance of developing information resources and tools, even those that are today some of the most visible -- GenBank, model organism databases, and the Human Genome Project.
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From page 37...
... Similarly, understanding how a small change in polymer structure interacts with processing and environment changes to evolve properties is a huge challenge for the materials scientist. Given these parallel challenges, some existing bioinformatics databases may serve as a model for the proposed polymer composites database.
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... , at . PARALLELS FOR MATERIALS DATA In biomedical informatics, the raw data being stored might be a gene sequence and related details on specific organism function (for example, raw data on gene X along with data on blood pressure, on heart rate, and on various biochemical pathways and their responses to stress)
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... Recommendation: Mission agencies should offer sustained support to develop and maintain comprehensive information on PMC properties in a new materials informatics initiative. A steering committee on the needs of the PMC community should be formed to ensure that this effort is effectively targeted.
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... Three curators verify submissions and search for publications containing relevant unsubmitted data; five software developers and two IT specialists deal with the data. The heavy presence of computational staff reflects the complexities of data representation and manipulation and the importance of providing a consistent architecture and analysis environment to the community.
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