The February 11, 2011 issue of Science has a special section titled "Dealing with Data" with a number of papers and articles covering data intensive science and data curation issues. They have set up a web site that consolidates some of the material from this issue and some related topical material from other Science journals (Signaling, Translational Medicine, Careers) for public access (registration required for non-subscribers) at
http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/data/Clifford Lynch Director, CNI
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