China's biological data utilization is basically "export to domestic sales", how to change?

"Almost half of the articles published in international journals in China are related to life sciences. it is an international practice for
to publish papers in top journals and submit research data to several large biodata centers in Europe and the United States. Li Yixuan, a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Biomedical Big Data Center, estimated that as many as thousands of terabytes of biological data are currently stored in biological data centers abroad, with tens of billions of yuan of national science and technology investment behind them.

another "strange image" is that, through "export-to-domestic sales", domestic counterparts have achieved data sharing on international platforms that are difficult to achieve at home.
" we lack a sharing culture, in addition to a lack of sharing platforms.
" National People's Congress representative, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai Institute of Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Li Lin 14 in an interview with science and technology daily, called for China should establish its own biomedical big data governance system.
The use of biological data in China is basically "export-to-domestic" "China is a veritable biological 'data power'.
" Li Lin told reporters that since the human genome research, China has produced a large number of human and medical-related genomics and other genomic shisalalal data, only stored in the international gene database of the genomic data, more than 30% of china.
on the one hand, the largest biological data-exporting country, on the other hand, China relies heavily on international data for research.
the basic calculation of a large number of life science research in China, not only rely on foreign analytical software, but also often rely on large-scale scientific research data stored in foreign data centers.
2006, 14 submarine fiber optic cables were affected by the earthquake, international communication between China and the United States was blocked, the domestic can not access the National Biotechnology Information Center (NCBI) website, resulting in heavy dependence on foreign data resources of China's life science research has been greatly affected. Li Lin,
, said that China has a number of well-run databases, but the real integration of a large number of domestic data public database is not many, and limited scale, basically do not have the ability to share, integrate and provide large-scale data services.
lack of a culture of domestic bio-data-sharing, it is considered to be an important cause of the phenomenon of "export-to-domestic sales".
massive amounts of biomedical big data are scattered in the hands of institutions and even individuals, and are fragmented or siloed for decades.
" In the field of bio-big data, China lacks the system, mechanism and support environment for the effective management and utilization of bio-big data from the national level, which has seriously threatened china's bio-digital sovereignty.
" Li Yixuan, after consulting the six administrative penalty decisions published by the state related to the management of human genetic resources, found that some institutions and enterprises, in order to their own immediate interests, disregarded the state management norms, illegally transferred a large number of genetic resources and testing data abroad.
should balance shared application and privacy protection" causes many reasons for the above phenomenon, the core problem is the lack of national public welfare, scale, authoritative data standards management innovation service technology system and supporting infrastructure.
," Li Said said.
December 2016, the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the 13th Five-Year Plan for The National Major Science and Technology Infrastructure, which included the "National Biomedical Big Data Infrastructure" construction program as one of the five back-up projects.
"There are about 3 million single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sites in a person, and with the development of genetic detection technology, it's theoretically only about 75, in other words, only 1/40,000 SNP site information can be used to lock someone."
" Li Lin admits that the sharing application of biomedical big data and privacy protection game each other, facing technical and ethical challenges.
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" li said that the system includes improving laws, regulations and policy standards based on data security and privacy rights and interests, strengthening cooperation and coordination between national data-related management departments and facility technology systems, and setting up data security and ethics committees and information security departments at all levels to supervise, lead and implement data security and privacy protections for domestic biomedical big data.
li also hopes that through platform construction, Li Yixuan hopes to slowly cultivate the scientific data sharing culture in the domestic scientific research circle.
Source: Science Daily.