title: clearScience: Infrastructure for Communicating Data-Intensive Science.
abstract: Progress in biomedical research requires effective scientific communication to one's peers and to the public. Current research routinely encompasses large datasets and complex analytic processes, and the constraints of traditional journal formats limit useful transmission of these elements. We are constructing a framework through which authors can not only provide the narrative of what was done, but the primary and derivative data, the source code, the compute environment, and web-accessible virtual machines. This infrastructure allows authors to "hand their machine"- prepopulated with libraries, data, and code-to those interested in reviewing or building off of their work. This project, "clearScience," seeks to provide an integrated system that accommodates the ad hoc nature of discovery in the data-intensive sciences and seamless transitions from working to reporting. We demonstrate that rather than merely describing the science being reported, one can deliver the science itself.
authors.affiliation: Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, WA.
authors.forename: Brian M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Bot
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Burdick
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kellen
authors.forename: Erich S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Huang