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ARTICLE · 23 APRIL 2020

Data Hubs In The Fight Against A Global Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the creation of worldwide data hubs to collect data, and the development of software tools to extract insights from data.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the creation of worldwide data hubs to collect data, and the development of software tools to extract insights from data. These insights can be used to find new ways to reduce disease spread, protect healthcare workers and accelerate the development of treatments, including a vaccine. A data hub might be available "as-is" to "use at your own risk," requiring collaborators to manage legal, regulatory and ethical risks.

Data hubs can involve different health datasets, such as clinical and research data. COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) provides more than 44,000 articles about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses in a centralized hub in a machine-readable format, making it easier for use by the global machine learning community. Currently, CORD-19 is the most extensive coronavirus literature collection available for data and text mining. MiPasa, another data hub that collects COVID-19 clinical data and laboratory

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