New preprint: Centralised biological databases are ticking time bombs 💣
Single points of failure from cyberattacks, funding cuts, or political chaos can paralyse research globally. We need federated & decentralised architectures NOW.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2509.19206
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A decentralized future for the open-science databases
Continuous and reliable access to curated biological data repositories is indispensable for accelerating rigorous scientific inquiry and fostering reproducible research. Centralized repositories,…