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Susanna-Assunta Sansone

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Susanna-Assunta Sansone
Susanna-Assunta Sansone
NationalityItalian
Other namesFAIR lady[2]
Alma materUniversity of Naples Federico II
Imperial College London (BSc, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsOpen science
Reproducibility
Data management
Data publication
FAIR data[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Oxford e-Research Centre
European Bioinformatics Institute
Research Data Alliance
Microscience Ltd
ThesisThe role of CU-ZN-cofactored superoxide dismutase in salmonella virulence (2001)
Websiteeng.ox.ac.uk/people/susanna-assunta-sansone/ Edit this at Wikidata

Susanna-Assunta Sansone is a British-Italian data scientist who is professor of data readiness at the University of Oxford where she leads the data readiness group and serves as associate director of the Oxford e-Research Centre.[3] Her research investigates techniques for improving the interoperability, reproducibility and integrity of data.[1][4]

Early life and education

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Sansone is from Italy. She was an undergraduate student at the University of Naples Federico II.[5] She earned her bachelor's degree in molecular biology and a PhD in microbiology at Imperial College London,[6] where she worked in St Mary's Hospital, London.[7] Her thesis investigated the role of the cofactored enzyme superoxide dismutase in the virulence of Salmonella.[6]

Research and career

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After earning her doctorate, she moved to Microscience Ltd, where she characterised vaccine strains.[7] In 2001, Sansone joined the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) where she worked in research data management.[7] Sansone joined the University of Oxford in 2010.[8] She became concerned that whilst there were vast amounts of data in the public domain, the majority of it was not reusable. To make data reusable, Sansone encourages researchers to combine their data with metadata: a description of what the data means.[9] Sansone has described data reproducibility as “the foundation of every scientific field,”.[10]

Sansone's research investigates strategies to enable the creation of research objects that are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).[7][11][3] She co-founded the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Data in 2013, and serves as chair of the Research Data Alliance.[12][13] She co-authored the FAIR data principles in 2016,[14] a set of guidelines for the scientific ecosystem.[15] FAIR principles have since been adopted by funding bodies, scientific publishers and the private sector.[15] Sansone works with partners to deliver data stewardship and data governance training and to develop guidelines to make data more accessible.[16] She is one of the co-creators the FAIR Cookbook, an online resource for life scientists to enable them to keep FAIR data.[17] Her research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the European Union.[18]

Selected publications

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Her publications[1][4][19] include

  • The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship[14]
  • ArrayExpress--a public database of microarray experiments and gene expression profiles[20]
  • The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration[21]
  • The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification[22]
  • MetaboLights—an open-access general-purpose repository for metabolomics studies and associated meta-data[23]
  • COVID-19 pandemic reveals the peril of ignoring metadata standards [24]
  • ISA software suite: supporting standards-compliant experimental annotation and enabling curation at the community level[25]
  • Toward interoperable bioscience data[26]
  • Modeling biomedical experimental processes with OBI [27]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Susanna-Assunta Sansone publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Susanna-Assunta Sansone on Twitter Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b "Professor Susanna-Assunta Sansone". ox.ac.uk. University of Oxford. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  4. ^ a b Susanna-Assunta Sansone publications from Europe PubMed Central
  5. ^ "Susanna-Assunta Sansone". elixir-europe.org. ELIXIR. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  6. ^ a b Sansone, Susanna-Assunta (2001). The role of CU-ZN-cofactored superoxide dismutase in salmonella virulence. london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). Imperial College London (University of London). OCLC 498579453. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.246768.
  7. ^ a b c d "Susanna-Assunta Sansone". eng.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  8. ^ "Susanna-Assunta Sansone". fairsfair.eu. 11 June 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  9. ^ Van Noorden, Richard (2013). "Data-sharing: Everything on display". Nature. 500 (7461): 243–245. doi:10.1038/nj7461-243a. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 23930278.
  10. ^ "Towards Improved Data Reproducibility". technologynetworks.com. Informatics from Technology Networks. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  11. ^ "Susanna-Assunta Sansone". nature.com. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  12. ^ "Editors & Editorial Board". nature.com. Scientific Data. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  13. ^ "Susanna-Assunta Sansone". rd-alliance.org. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  14. ^ a b Mark D. Wilkinson; Michel Dumontier; IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg; et al. (15 March 2016). "The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship". Scientific Data. 3 (1): 160018. doi:10.1038/SDATA.2016.18. ISSN 2052-4463. PMC 4792175. PMID 26978244. Wikidata Q27942822.
  15. ^ a b "Pharma-backed Toolkit to Speed Up Adoption of FAIR Data Principles". technologynetworks.com. Informatics from Technology Networks. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  16. ^ "Funded Projects". sansonegroup.eng.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  17. ^ "FAIR Cookbook". fairplus.github.io. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  18. ^ "UK government grants awarded to Susanna Sansone". ukri.org. UK Research and Innovation.
  19. ^ Susanna-Assunta Sansone at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  20. ^ H Parkinson; M Kapushesky; M Shojatalab; et al. (28 November 2006). "ArrayExpress--a public database of microarray experiments and gene expression profiles". Nucleic Acids Research. 35 (Database issue): D747-50. doi:10.1093/NAR/GKL995. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 1716725. PMID 17132828. Wikidata Q33264889.
  21. ^ Barry Smith; Michael Ashburner; Cornelius Rosse; et al. (November 2007). "The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration". Nature Biotechnology. 25 (11): 1251–5. doi:10.1038/NBT1346. ISSN 1087-0156. PMC 2814061. PMID 17989687. Wikidata Q19671692.
  22. ^ Dawn Field; George Garrity; Tanya Gray; et al. (May 2008). "The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification". Nature Biotechnology. 26 (5): 541–7. doi:10.1038/NBT1360. ISSN 1087-0156. PMC 2409278. PMID 18464787. Wikidata Q28279450.
  23. ^ Kenneth Haug; Reza M. Salek; Pablo Conesa; et al. (January 2013). "MetaboLights--an open-access general-purpose repository for metabolomics studies and associated meta-data". Nucleic Acids Research. 41 (Database issue): D781-6. doi:10.1093/NAR/GKS1004. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 3531110. PMID 23109552. Wikidata Q27818909.
  24. ^ Lynn M Schriml; Maria Chuvochina; Neil Davies; et al. (19 June 2020). "COVID-19 pandemic reveals the peril of ignoring metadata standards". Scientific Data. 7 (1): 188. doi:10.1038/S41597-020-0524-5. ISSN 2052-4463. PMID 32561801. Wikidata Q96473059.
  25. ^ Philippe Rocca-Serra; Marco Brandizi; Eamonn Maguire; et al. (15 September 2010). "ISA software suite: supporting standards-compliant experimental annotation and enabling curation at the community level". Bioinformatics. 26 (18): 2354–6. doi:10.1093/BIOINFORMATICS/BTQ415. ISSN 1367-4803. PMC 2935443. PMID 20679334. Wikidata Q28749402.
  26. ^ Susanna-Assunta Sansone; Philippe Rocca-Serra; Dawn Field; et al. (27 January 2012). "Toward interoperable bioscience data". Nature Genetics. 44 (2): 121–6. doi:10.1038/NG.1054. ISSN 1061-4036. PMC 3428019. PMID 22281772. Wikidata Q28090939.
  27. ^ Ryan R Brinkman; Mélanie Courtot; Dirk Derom; et al. (22 June 2010). "Modeling biomedical experimental processes with OBI". Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 1 Suppl 1 (Suppl 1): S7. doi:10.1186/2041-1480-1-S1-S7. ISSN 2041-1480. PMC 2903726. PMID 20626927. Wikidata Q28287823.