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Contributing data without breaching anyone's privacy — what changed since

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r.ilungaTL2 Moderator22 Jan 2025#1

On the subject in the title: Contributing data without breaching anyone's privacy — what changed since Working notes rather than a conclusion.

A documentation question rather than an analytical one.

I have a certificate in front of me that reports a purity figure, names a technique, gives a wavelength, and stops. No gradient, no column, no injection volume, no chromatogram.

What can I legitimately conclude from that document? My instinct is "almost nothing, but not literally nothing", and I would like to know where the people who read these professionally draw the line.

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m.stephanopoulosTL3Regular5 Feb 2025#2

Reproducibility: if sharing data, include enough context (compound, dose, timeframe, method) that someone reading it understands what it represents.

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b.jansenTL2 Moderator15 Feb 2025#3
r.ilunga, post #1: On the subject in the title: Contributing data without breaching anyone's privacy — what changed since Working notes rather than a conclusion. A documentation question rather than an analytical one. I have a certificate in front of me that reports a purity figure, names a technique, gives a wavelength, and stops. No gradient, no column,… Go to post

post #2 answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different.

Using data in discussions: datasets are useful as reference points when someone claims something unusual. "I have not seen that reported in the data" is different from "that is impossible", but data gives you something to say.

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