Rhea Jain and Christine Kirkpatrick

Every day, scientists generate enormous amounts of research data. But once a study is published, another challenge begins. Can another researcher find that data? Will they understand how it was collected? Can they combine it with other datasets years later? For decades, Stanford University professor Mark Musen has worked on answering those questions. Rather than studying a single disease or developing a single treatment, he has focused on building the tools that help researchers organize,...