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in thread A generic biomedical data processing library

You are both right here. Of course, when the data is of that sensitivity, only a handful of people can view them to begin with and even less can edit them. Additionally, there are many consistency and integrity checks in place.
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Re^7: A generic biomedical data processing library
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 23, 2010 at 09:18 UTC

    Indeed. The interesting thing here is that "the users" in this case are the vary same progammers who one has no option to "trust"(*) in writing the code to manipulate that same data.

    (*)Where trust is defined as putting sufficient safeguards in place to ensure the results of their manipulations are correct.


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