The Research Parasite Award is an honor given annually at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing to recognize scientists who study previously published data in ways not anticipated by the researchers who first generated it. The tongue-in-cheek name of the award refers to a New England Journal of Medicine editorial[1] that coined the term "research parasite" to disparage such work.[2][3] The idea was first suggested on Twitter by Iowa State University researcher Iddo Friedberg shortly after the editorial was published,[4] and was then brought to life by Casey Greene, a pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania.[5]
The Research Parasite Award
Awarded for
Outstanding contributions to the rigorous secondary analysis of data
Hosted by
Endowment housed at the University of Pennsylvania
Two Research Parasite Awards are given to recognize scientists who have made outstanding and rigorous contributions to analysis of secondary data in biology. Recipients must reuse data generated by someone else to extend, replicate, or disprove a research study in a reproducible manner. The junior parasite award recognizes an outstanding contribution from an early career scientist such as a postdoctoral, graduate, or undergraduate trainee. The senior parasitism award recognizes an individual who has engaged in exemplary research parasitism for a sustained period of time. Since the launch of the award in 2017,[6] a travel grant to attend the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing has been provided to the junior parasite award winner by GigaScience.[7] Starting for the 2019 award year the awards are supported in part by an endowment housed at the University of Pennsylvania.
Timeline of the creation of the Research Parasite Award. From "Data detectives, self-love, and humility: a research parasite's perspective" by 2019 Junior award winner Claire Duvallet.
The Research Symbiont Awards, inspired by the Research Parasite Award, was founded by J. Brian Byrd, a physician-scientist at the University of Michigan.[8] Recognizing exemplars in the practice of data sharing, they are given to scientists working in any area of study who have shared data beyond the expectations of their field.[9] Unlike a parasite, naming the data sharing award after symbionts helps stress that this process can be mutually beneficial to the data producing "host" because it increases the scientific impact of their investigators. From 2021 the award has been sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and Dragon Master Foundation. The 2021 winners of the General Symbionts prize were Zhang Yongzhen and Edward C. Holmes for their sharing of the sequence of the first SARSCov2 genome.[10]
Recipients self-nominate using a letter that references their published manuscripts that exemplify data reuse in a manner that enhances reproducibility. These published manuscripts should describe original scientific research that involves data re-use, or the secondary analysis of shared data and that extend, replicate, or disprove the results from the original manuscript describing the data.
The nomination materials are reviewed by the Selection Committee, which is made up of at least 3 four-year term positions as well as the past two recipients of the Sustained Parasitism award.
Award laureatesedit
Casey Greene presenting the 2020 award at PSB in Hawaii.
^Park Y, Greene CS (November 2018). "A parasite's perspective on data sharing". GigaScience. 7 (11): giy129. doi:10.1093/gigascience/giy129. PMC6258825. PMID 30395209.
^Friedberg I (2016-01-22). "I propose a new science award: "The Research Parasite Award is given to those who used someone else's data to do some really cool sh*t"". @iddux. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
^ abcOransky I, Marcus A. "Congratulations, you're a parasite!". Retrieved 17 June 2019.
^Altman RB, Dunker K, Hunter A, Ritchie L, Murray T, Klein TE (2016-11-22), Altman RB, Dunker AK, Hunter L, Ritchie MD (eds.), "Preface: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2017", Biocomputing 2017, World Scientific, p. vii, doi:10.1142/9789813207813_fmatter, ISBN978-981-320-780-6
^ abDuvallet C (January 2020). "Data detectives, self-love, and humility: a research parasite's perspective". GigaScience. 9 (1). doi:10.1093/gigascience/giz148. PMC6940423. PMID 31897481.
^"The Research Symbiont Awards". researchsymbionts.org. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
^Community Data Science Collective (2019-01-07). "Benjamin Mako Hill is a Research Symbiont!". Community Data Science Collective. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
^"The Research Symbiont Awards". researchsymbionts.org. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
^ ab"The Research Parasite Awards". researchparasite.com. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
^Callier V. "The Open Data Explosion". Retrieved 17 June 2019.
^"2019 Research Parasites". Retrieved 17 June 2019.
^Raman AT (March 2021). "A research parasite's perspective on establishing a baseline to avoid errors in secondary analyses". GigaScience. 10 (3). doi:10.1093/gigascience/giab015. PMC7953484. PMID 33710326.
^Nieto, Nicolás; Larrazabal, Agostina; Peterson, Victoria; Milone, Diego H; Ferrante, Enzo (December 2021). "On the relationship between research parasites and fairness in machine learning: challenges and opportunities". GigaScience. 10 (12). doi:10.1093/gigascience/giab086. ISSN 2047-217X. PMC8685850. PMID 34927190.
^The 2021 Research Parasite and Symbiont Award Presentation, retrieved 2022-09-17
^Pilgrim, Jack (2022). "The opportunities of research parasitism: A case study using the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD)". GigaScience. 11. doi:10.1093/gigascience/giac123. ISSN 2047-217X. PMC9724551. PMID 36472572.
^ ab"Vectors of data awards: acknowledging the entire data sharing food web - GigaBlog". gigasciencejournal.com. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
External linksedit
The Research Parasite Awards
The Research Symbiont Awards
PSB Home Page
May 03, 2024
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This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable independent third party sources January 2020 Learn how and when to remove this message The Research Parasite Award is an honor given annually at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing to recognize scientists who study previously published data in ways not anticipated by the researchers who first generated it The tongue in cheek name of the award refers to a New England Journal of Medicine editorial 1 that coined the term research parasite to disparage such work 2 3 The idea was first suggested on Twitter by Iowa State University researcher Iddo Friedberg shortly after the editorial was published 4 and was then brought to life by Casey Greene a pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania 5 The Research Parasite AwardAwarded forOutstanding contributions to the rigorous secondary analysis of dataHosted byEndowment housed at the University of PennsylvaniaFirst awarded2017 2017 Websitehttps researchparasite com Two Research Parasite Awards are given to recognize scientists who have made outstanding and rigorous contributions to analysis of secondary data in biology Recipients must reuse data generated by someone else to extend replicate or disprove a research study in a reproducible manner The junior parasite award recognizes an outstanding contribution from an early career scientist such as a postdoctoral graduate or undergraduate trainee The senior parasitism award recognizes an individual who has engaged in exemplary research parasitism for a sustained period of time Since the launch of the award in 2017 6 a travel grant to attend the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing has been provided to the junior parasite award winner by GigaScience 7 Starting for the 2019 award year the awards are supported in part by an endowment housed at the University of Pennsylvania Timeline of the creation of the Research Parasite Award From Data detectives self love and humility a research parasite s perspective by 2019 Junior award winner Claire Duvallet The Research Symbiont Awards inspired by the Research Parasite Award was founded by J Brian Byrd a physician scientist at the University of Michigan 8 Recognizing exemplars in the practice of data sharing they are given to scientists working in any area of study who have shared data beyond the expectations of their field 9 Unlike a parasite naming the data sharing award after symbionts helps stress that this process can be mutually beneficial to the data producing host because it increases the scientific impact of their investigators From 2021 the award has been sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and Dragon Master Foundation The 2021 winners of the General Symbionts prize were Zhang Yongzhen and Edward C Holmes for their sharing of the sequence of the first SARSCov2 genome 10 Contents 1 Nomination and selection procedures 2 Award laureates 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksNomination and selection procedures editRecipients self nominate using a letter that references their published manuscripts that exemplify data reuse in a manner that enhances reproducibility These published manuscripts should describe original scientific research that involves data re use or the secondary analysis of shared data and that extend replicate or disprove the results from the original manuscript describing the data The nomination materials are reviewed by the Selection Committee which is made up of at least 3 four year term positions as well as the past two recipients of the Sustained Parasitism award Award laureates edit nbsp Casey Greene presenting the 2020 award at PSB in Hawaii 2017 Kun Hsing Yu Junior Parasite 5 2 Erick Turner Sustained Parasitism 2 5 2018 Uri Ben David Junior Parasite 11 Julie Dunning Hotopp Sustained Parasitism 12 2019 Claire Duvallet Junior Parasite 7 Rafael Irizarry Sustained Parasitism 13 2020 Ayush Raman Junior Parasite 14 Kelley Harris Sustained Parasitism 11 2021 Nicolas Nieto Junior Parasite 15 Jordi Paps Sustained Parasitism 16 2022 Jack Pilgrim Junior Parasite 17 18 A Murat Eren Sustained Parasitism 18 See also editList of general science and technology awards List of awards in bioinformatics and computational biologyReferences edit Longo DL Drazen JM January 2016 Data Sharing The New England Journal of Medicine 374 3 276 7 doi 10 1056 NEJMe1516564 PMID 26789876 a b c Greene CS Garmire LX Gilbert JA Ritchie MD Hunter LE March 2017 Celebrating parasites Nature Genetics 49 4 483 484 doi 10 1038 ng 3830 PMC 5710834 PMID 28358134 Park Y Greene CS November 2018 A parasite s perspective on data sharing GigaScience 7 11 giy129 doi 10 1093 gigascience giy129 PMC 6258825 PMID 30395209 Friedberg I 2016 01 22 I propose a new science award The Research Parasite Award is given to those who used someone else s data to do some really cool sh t iddux Retrieved 2020 01 06 a b c Oransky I Marcus A Congratulations you re a parasite Retrieved 17 June 2019 Altman RB Dunker K Hunter A Ritchie L Murray T Klein TE 2016 11 22 Altman RB Dunker AK Hunter L Ritchie MD eds Preface Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2017 Biocomputing 2017 World Scientific p vii doi 10 1142 9789813207813 fmatter ISBN 978 981 320 780 6 a b Duvallet C January 2020 Data detectives self love and humility a research parasite s perspective GigaScience 9 1 doi 10 1093 gigascience giz148 PMC 6940423 PMID 31897481 The Research Symbiont Awards researchsymbionts org Retrieved 2020 01 11 Community Data Science Collective 2019 01 07 Benjamin Mako Hill is a Research Symbiont Community Data Science Collective Retrieved 2020 01 11 The Research Symbiont Awards researchsymbionts org Retrieved 2021 05 01 a b The Research Parasite Awards researchparasite com Retrieved 2020 01 06 Callier V The Open Data Explosion Retrieved 17 June 2019 2019 Research Parasites Retrieved 17 June 2019 Raman AT March 2021 A research parasite s perspective on establishing a baseline to avoid errors in secondary analyses GigaScience 10 3 doi 10 1093 gigascience giab015 PMC 7953484 PMID 33710326 Nieto Nicolas Larrazabal Agostina Peterson Victoria Milone Diego H Ferrante Enzo December 2021 On the relationship between research parasites and fairness in machine learning challenges and opportunities GigaScience 10 12 doi 10 1093 gigascience giab086 ISSN 2047 217X PMC 8685850 PMID 34927190 The 2021 Research Parasite and Symbiont Award Presentation retrieved 2022 09 17 Pilgrim Jack 2022 The opportunities of research parasitism A case study using the Barcode of Life Data System BOLD GigaScience 11 doi 10 1093 gigascience giac123 ISSN 2047 217X PMC 9724551 PMID 36472572 a b Vectors of data awards acknowledging the entire data sharing food web GigaBlog gigasciencejournal com Retrieved 2022 09 07 External links editThe Research Parasite Awards The Research Symbiont Awards 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