Open Humans now consists of over 6,000 members that collectively have uploaded over 16,000 data sets!

To share this great community effort as a resource, we wrote our first academic manuscript. In it, we describe the platform, community, and some diverse projects that we’ve all enabled. You can find a pre-print on BioRxiv.

True to the community spirit of Open Humans, we wrote the manuscript completely in public and with an open call for contributions through our Slack. Thanks to this we could gather diverse perspectives of how Open Humans can be utilized for both research as well as personal data exploration. Using these existing projects and studies running on Open Humans as examples, we explore how our community tackles complex issues such as informed consent, data portability, and individual-centric research paradigms. Read more about this in the manuscript.

All of this is only made possible by your contributions to Open Humans, so we want to take this opportunity to thank you for your participation!