Radboudumc receives two Open Science Grants Grants for Peter-Bram 't Hoen and Rogier Kievit

Thirty projects related to Open Science are set to receive a financial stimulus of up to 50,000 euros of NWO. Among them are two projects of Radboud university medical center. One grant goes to Peter-Bram 't Hoen and  colleagues and one to Rogier Kievit and colleagues.

Peter-Bram ‘t Hoen and XiaoFeng Liao: Professionalisation and wider adoption of the FAIR Data Cube, a FAIR data infrastructure for integrated multi-omics data analysis 

We are advancing Open Science practices in the -omics field (e.g. large-scale genome, proteome and metabolome data) through the FAIR Data Cube (FDCube). The FDCube enables researchers to make their -omics data ready for reuse and integration with other data sets and data types, by making (meta)data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) by design. This proposal aims to make the FDCube widely available through implementing harmonised metadata schemas, preparing a scalable production version and develop promotional and training material. Our goal is to empower researchers and foster collaboration within the -omics community through widespread adoption of FDCube. 

Rogier Kievit: Open Matrices: A global, free resource for testing cognitive ability 

Fluid reasoning is the ability to figure out abstract, novel problems not reliant on specific knowledge. Individual differences in this ability predict school success, longevity and morbidity, socio-economic outcomes and mental and physical health1-3. However, ‘gold standard’ tests such as the Ravens Matrices and Cattell Culture Fair test are expensive, preventing access by less well-resourced countries, practitioners, and labs, and have a limited number of items, preventing use in longitudinal or ‘experience sampling’ studies. The Open Matrices project will (1) develop, (2) validate and (3) make available an effectively unlimited set of fluid reasoning items to the global community.