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”Personally for me open research data is an enormous opportunity to do research and answer questions others have not yet asked”, says microbiologist Antti Karkman (University of Helsinki). In this short interview, he speaks on the advantages of open data in his own research and the research in general. Karkman is one of the speakers at ”Open Science Afternoon 2021 – Open Data Matters”.
Antti Karkman (TUHAT, ORCID) works as a computational microbiologist at the University of Helsinki, Department of Microbiology. Karkman is one of the speakers at the event ”Open Science Afternoon 2021 – Open Data Matters” which takes place on Friday, October 29, 2021 at Think Corner and online.
Antti Karkman, could you tell shortly about yourself and your work related to open data?
”I’m currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher funded by the Academy of Finland in a project about antibiotic resistance in waste waters. In my work I use microbial sequencing data and computational methods to answer questions related to the abundance and distribution of resistance genes in the environment. Some of my projects have been based on open sequencing data, so I would also describe myself as a data parasite.”
Some of my projects have been based on open sequencing data, so I would also describe myself as a data parasite.
What do you see as the greatest benefit of opening research data?
”Personally for me open research data is an enormous opportunity to do research and answer questions others have not yet asked. More broadly, open research data is important for the reproducibility of science and it contributes to the advance of science in several ways.”
If you would have one wish that would advance opening data (regardless of costs), what would it be?
”I would criminalise the use of the phrase ’Data available upon request’.”
Antti Karkman: ”Confessions of data parasite”, at Open Science Afternoon 2021 – Open Data Matters which takes place on Friday, October 29, 2021 (from 1 to 3 pm) at Think Corner and online.
